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trot relied upon by the on. member for Faster was no
Carabut merely an opinion, which bad been ailed for
lts iChancery judge Wore whom • are raising this
=was pending. It was a owe of • marriage contracted
between two estimable parties. In this case there
wire two children by the first marriage and three by the
mond, and it happened that when the parents we,.
travelling on the continent, the mother was attacked with
cholera at Frankfort, and died. Three days after the father
was attacked, and, when dying, rash a will, dividing the
squally amongst his live childroo. A contest srose
CPwlet7 the crown sod the children of the nomad
marrina, and the case being most important,
Victo.Chanoslior Stuart called in the aid of Jostles CTIOD•
well, bat that learned 'edge merely gays his minim The
can wee Mill and would ultimately, if necessary,
be canted to the Home of Lords. The fact was that the
law was left in • most maanthothry state by Lord Lynd-
humt's Aot, and therefore he (Mr. Malths) shoulae hie
at least to the introduction of the present
bill.
l'lltrtFOX did not agree with the hon. mambafor Faster
Inn dsecenag the agitation which had arisen on this quali-
ties, miss that it was a proof how deeply interesting Unmet
be to persons of property and induenoe. The hon. member
hod can a slur on the opinions of lawysts. But was he
*gamily ready to condemn the opinions of divines f (Hear,
hear.) Beaune, in the pamphlet to which he had alluded,
the opinion' of divines in favour of a change In the law were
as anoterons as those of the lawyers. Whatever might be
said of the Scripture authority, he thought that at least some
`Lltttyof interpretation ought to be 'Bowed. He had • mat
Mor tenderness of conscience, but there was one thing
to he objected, and that was the forcing one's own
ths consciences of others. (Hear, bear.) The
Plawhich bad base so often quoted in favour
(d onedesrw referred, in fact, to polygamy, and was ap
mainly to the Oriental social system. But even
tithe E was wall known that in Arabia the wife's
then unveiled
no ba
lms, har miner's has-
baud.Warns(
tha peilerif • foams inerriage. however,
them to the Irmo in Leviticus, will it rout mach "hangar
than it watt became not far has it was the proldlthion of
witchcraft. We hod long slaps repealed oor laws aphid
witchcraft In spite of Leviticus, and therefore he did net sea
why we were io bu boned by it in the other master. It vas
a isramrkalis het that Ana montages increased ender every
change of the law. At ow time prohibited, at another to-
boated, bet, is either sere, still continuing to multiply. The
int ens, you could not put them down, bemuse there was
in thews inocaststent with the law of snare.
milddrilOPE, without entering upon the theological ques-
tion in this of the bill, looking at its social septet only,
the fiend
vira stageonWHITBREAD, on the other hand, supported the
modes op= social pomade. He did not give his vote, he
rid. to the interests of the rich few ; ha called upon the
hones not %great • favour, but to give • right.
Mr. IdIILLOR thought it necessary that the bill should
be intrcdeo4 that an opportunity might be offered of coo-
-1 @Mowing wer the law, as It stood, ought or ought not to
I be altered, them marriegis being very common among the
pawn &WPM
Mr. GILPIN, in supporting the motion, cited variciums=
Woos which he thought proved the whole case se
the theological part of the question.
Mr. BIGGS likewise "polo' in favour of the bill, which the
people believed, he said, to be necomery, not only for their
liberty,
Mr. LbuYGOt their
haopposetlPPilwisadto bill. If parliament was to le-
, estate for the Instincts of mankind, it ought, he said, to
Wgialste, not for the lower, but the higher and purer fa-
st=to which this bill was repugnant.
GODBRICH, in supporting the soothe, denied that
the bill would injure the moral tharactn of the working
classes. The question, he observed, was eminently • social
one, and he ocatendsd that, instead of lowering, It would
raise their motel character.

Mr. PULLER remarked that, se the law of England
profiteer! to be based u the divine law, it was not enough
to my, • I have looked into the received English version of
the saiptures, end have satisfied mysell without having
recourse to theological criticism that the right construction
of the tent is so and so, and therefore the law ought to be
altered."

The hove then divided :
For the motion
Areizun it
Lem wee that Nivea to be*t is the bill.
EQUALISATION OF POOR-RATE IN THE ME-

Oeuthoes, and had proposed to embody • remedy in the
form of a bill, so that the house and all 'Send by the mea-
sure would be able to me it provisions. He (Mr. Estotort)
would be very sorry that the door of the home should be
shut against any grievanos ; he should tharekoe not
to the rootion, guarding himself, at the lame time, against
being supposed to gnu easy opinion as to the expediency of
the mesenn. He reviewed the chief features of the peo-
Posed Plan, e fess that it might pave the way to •
=ofoffrxmiamkasi sad to outhatke of the wholesome
Mr. i. Loo=rpportiog the moths, replied to ob-
*ekes enggesteel by Mr.
asocial urt. The measure would
abed • remedy Ire • great evil—orowded dwellings.
Mr. aossucx objected that the bill sinned against two
of the very lestorzt.. of the Poor Law; it vidated the
elemaX!nisetthe the wfistazt.latkesaidwiththatm:thegmaPlatolliPS:chiefty, should
overlook sad guard the expenditure of the rate. Be be-
Kr. COI mid It was his &nation to vote birth' intends..
don of the bill if the meant went to • division, but he
strongly obVuut.:. the merinos power to the
=of to tax the ratepayers. His hon. and
friend the somber for Southwark (Yr Locke had
stated that the Bank of England was rated at only 300/. •
year. That was a mistake ; the Beak stood in four or five
In one of those parishes it was rated et about
IrSia.psat, but that widen of :it which shod is the ward of
Broad-street was rated at 10,0001. a year. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOUVERIE moldered it a misfortune that
his right honourable Mend (Mr. 8. Reitocout) had
given even a passing encouragement to this most
mischievous scheme by assenting to the Introduction of
distal. He could not see the force of the reason which
he milord for glen, that ascent—namely, the mild
and liseboszing manner fa which the hon. and learned mem-
ber for the Tow& Hamlets brought it forward. That might
be • nasal for applauding the hon. and learned member,
but it was no reason why a minister should have assented
to
the Introduction of awl a bill as that. The hon. and
lamed genfiessan (Mr. Ayrtoo) was not Andel in smuts-
hin, as he hod done, that thews was • rteessolty for such •
mammy as this. There was no specialty in the case of the
metropolis as regarded the relief of the poor ; similar n-
egating' to those which prevailed there wen to be found in
Rother parts of the country. It was, he perceived,
oat of loon that the adoption of this scheme would
e amen liberal administratioo of poor relief. He en-
treated the home not to be influenced by that consideration.
(Haar, hear.) Apart from the improvidence which accom-
panied it, • profuse expenditure always tempted paupers
from other districts, sad led to the worst remake.
Mr. COBBETT did not consider the right hoc. gentleman
(Mr. 8. Retoourt) at all to blame for heron assented to the
introduction of the bill. (Hear, bear.) He himself was
opposed to what wee called an equalisation of mor-rates ;
but he thought • rate in aid would be very us in times
of distress. He had expected to hear more allusion to the recent
distresses of the poor in the eastern parts of the metropolis.
He was satisfied that there wee nothing mare horrible than
the =Serfage of the poor in the eastern districts of London
last wfaterear, beer.)
Mr. TO SEND gave his hearty and cordial support to
the bill, for ha believed the time had come when those who
bad hitherto sward would have to bear their eof
the local burdens. In 1868, the London Docksfair "r 1 nsharo Ire
than 19,768 L in rates, whereas St. Hatharins
which were nearly as large, had only had to pay 4481.
(Hear,
_hear.) The rates in the parish of St. Nicholas,
=reached as high an amount es 18e. in the viand,
ey'were never less than half • guinea. The reason
two-thirds of the parish were occupied by government
establishment; and the rats fell upon the remaining one-
third, which was inhabited by the intelligent, straggling
animas in thine establishments. He thought that there
ought no longer to be those distinctions between portions of
what ought to be considered but as one family.
Leave was then given to bring In the bill.
MEDICAL REFORM.
Mr. COWPER moved for leave to bring in a bill to regu-
late the gaslifiemion of practitioners in medicine and surgery.
The question was one that was ei beset with diffimaities, and
gees rise to so much jealousy, that he should have been very
morning to bring It forward had he not been solicited to do
so when be held office at the Board of Health. The bill pre-
pared by the select committee of 1868 corrected
some delloacies. It • tad • board of examiners, who
were to examine all To this system there were,
no doubt, souse objections. It wee said, and with justice,
that the nsthution of • new bond would throw upon those
who had been 'Reidy examined at the universities the burden
of • second examination. Now, instead of this, he proposed
to combine the two certificates of the existing examining
boards, so that • student who bad obtained certificates both
from the Surgeons' College and Apothecaries' Hall should be
entitled, upon production of both, to be registered as a quali-
fied pyrraacctitioner. Now, with regard to the register Wolf,
coniderable difficulties had been raised. The manure
brought in last year proposed to :Introduce two classes in the
=Mon, hut this wee open to difficulty, as it would canes
and those who were devoted to medicine to be
merged nir
one class. This wee, no doubt, objectionable
sad, besides thia, the College of Physicians stews desired
to be registered separately. He thought, however, that it
would be better to leave the arrangement of this question of
a medical council. With rapid to the oon-
firti:ntkofe to
this council he thought that altar all the schemes
which had bean proposed the bast coarse would be to have •
representative council, and not one nominated by the crown.
A representative council would secure the support of the
medical body, which was •• thing greatly to- be desired.
Mr. WALPOLE said that In his opinion the bill was the
best proposition that had hitherto been made on the subjec
Baste, however, he gave it his unqualified support, he must
take time to give it some further consideration.
Lord ELCHO would consent to the introduction of the
bill as being founded on a principle similar to that contained
In the memos which he himself had introduced. A most
unfounded prejudice had arises against that bill respecting
ft provision for the apptmentiof • council. AU he should
say was that when both bill' came before the committee he
hoped the house would recollect that the council question
was not • main feature of his bill, and that he was willing to
exam' to any reasonable modification.
Mr. HATCHELL @moved of the bill as being calculated
to meet any remotable expectation.
Lord ELCHO embalm:l, and leave was given to bring in
the bill. CUSTOMS ACTS.

MT.:73. A. HAMlLYONirougiiit; the report on the
CostonseAote._

liaaaltar o;rdara of taw day mar than disposal of, and tha
kolas adjourned at a quarter to use eolook.

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