The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKET&

LIVERPOOL, JEEP. 6 -Sales today :-(Treat Eastern, 37 -
(treat Western, West Midland 'Oxford), 374-Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1203 1-London and North Western, 117 11.--•
Metropolitan, 1%-North British. 644-North Eastern, York,
1071 4-Buffalo and ke Huron, 4 &Bi--Grand Trunk of
Canada, 184 4-I:ne, 4214--United States Five-Twenty, Bonds,
t:44-Great Luxembourg shares, 11 11.10 11-16 16-10--
Eastern Exchange Bank ;Limited d. - Albion Marine
'Limited', 14 d.-British and Foreign Marine (Limited', 14 p.-
i'nion Marine (Limited p.-British and Irish Magnetic Tele-
trraph, yO-1 bliw Vale 'Limited,. 84 d.-Liverpool Exchange,
M4--National Steam Limited lot d.
MANCHL,TER, JU%It O.- -A Wlod business was done, and pekes
were steady at the close. Confederate Loan, 5-District Bent
164 p. -Ebbw Vale compimy (Limited'. 8 d.-Eries, 41}
2t- -Great Eastern, :47 --Great Luxembourg, 114 12-O
Northern, A, 131 4-Grand Trunk of Canada. hi-Great Western,
544-General Credit
-Lan
, 2 8.14.41.-Illinols. 75-John Brown
and co. ,Limited) i 2
d -Lancashire and Yorkahire, 1204-1111. to
New. 1867,. Pref., 1-In .1. -- London and North Western, 117 •
, Manchester and county Bank Limited!. 24 p. -Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 61 4-Metropolitan, 12E1 7
I 1-Mexican, 17 -Ditto New -1864., 16- Midland, Iffi-North,
I British, 56 -South Eastern. 70 1-Thames sad Mersey Marine
Insurance Limited', et p.-United &ales 5.20 Years Bonds, 644.
BIIIMINONAII. Jung IL- Burliness done; Birmingham Chita
at 87 . Birmingham and Midland Bank 'hens. at 100;
Bir-
minglism tire Insurance ;Limited., at dia
.
and
and
I Henddol Slate and Slab at par. (losing prices ..-London
North Western Rails ay, 1104 to 117; North British Railway,
Mt. sellers : Birmingham Banking Company shares, 25i, buyers ;
Gloucestershire Bank shares. 504: Lloyd's Bank !Limited', 04 to
10 p. Midland Finaucial Limited , to 4 db. ; and Railway
Carriage Oldbury!, 14 to 2 p.
!Mode, J ewe;,.-Three *per Cent. Consols, 854-New Three
per Cent. Stock, 84 841-Ditto, for account, 10th July, Oaf -
India Five per Cent. stock 'transferable at the Bank of Ireland),
1044-National Bank • f:;0 paid!, for account, 74 74-National
of Liverpool (Limited!, ^,EIO paid).for account, 144-Provincial
1 Bank (4:25 paid‘, 84-ftoyal Bank £lO paid), 824-Ditto for ee-
-1 went, 321-Dublin and Belfast Junction i4'loo for ac-
, count, 69--Great southern and Western of 100 pail,, Was ;
Ditto for account, ;Jo-Dublin and. Drogheda, 5 per cent. coorer-
i Utile, redeemable 1808, 34.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT OLDHAM.—Yesterday
evening, about half-past six o'clock, a desperate attempt
to murder a young woman was made at the Bulls' Head
Inn, Geoige-street, Oldham. A young woman, named
Mary Davis, has been employed at this place as a servant
for some time. Her stepfather called at the public-house
yesterday and requested her to go home with him.
She refused, and the man, who was under the
influence of drink, became greatly irritated. They
were in the kitchen, and he threw the girl upon the
floor and attempted to cut her throat with a razor.
inflicting three wounds. In the struggle her hands were
very badly cut, but the resistance she offered was effectual
in saving her life. A man employed as brewer at the
' place, came into the kitchen when the murderous work
was proceeding, and the stepfather tamed upon him, but
assistance was called in, and he was overpowered and given
into custody. The man's name is not )et known, and he
1 refuses to disclose it to the police. The girl's windpipe is
slightly cut, but there is every hopo that she will recover.
She has had two children, and various rumours are afloat
respecting the prisoner's relations with her.
magic:FEß6oN DAVIS AND 1118 TRlAL.—Every day
we have some fresh rumour about the trial of Jeff. Davis,
and the public are beginning to weary of the subject.. If
Congress would only pass a resolution to open his prison
i doors and let him go whithersoever he would the people
j would be perfectly satisfied. All ides of vintlictive-
' nem is absurd as well as unpopular. His case
had been settled by the result of the rebellion • and the
time has goo* by when this great nation should 'wreak its
vengeance upon a political criminal. Let the government,
than, treat Jeff. Davis as my Uncle Toby treated the By—
iopen the door of Fortress Monroe and let him go forth.
Barely the world is large enough for Jeff. Davis and the
United Mates.—New York Herald, May 26.

A
f. 4 AD/VT
•
. , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. , Ihra Bright Itadmvewed that it wee lain a Map teem* a "'parting intelltgen
Lbws and comprehensive change in the lasi of m opeitY7
1 - He opposed the bill on the ground that it would be a WINDSOR SLIMMER RACES.-Wr
. HOUSE OF COMMONS W _.— IDNEBDAY, Jtrlen 6. great injustice on the small holders of real property in
snow
PieritesTAßga of s soya. each, w
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REAL ESTAIM INTIMACY BILL. the country. 3-yr-olds and wards ; whiners extra: the wt
Mr. ?IRATE warned in favour of the billow being ens £lO5. About We Mir
• After our report left
, ,
Mr. GOLDNEY said restwaersthetpinion that so important of a. eeries of measures which mitigated the stringency .of W. (i. W. Mule's
*bill should have emanated from the government, end not Lord Westmorland's Idler
tho!rtEleszaroperty and assimilated it to that which me lit ward' red's
have been left to • private member. The whole question of premeda,, ig. The following also ran : Sisyphus, Sister
, the law of
real
property had been carefully considered by
van
E TES & contended that no answer had been Botthig: sto 2 each opt ,ipbut an
1 E nto the speeches delivered against the bill, for that of gases, and sto 1 eget Opposition.
. the royal commission of '29-Xl, and no alteration in legis-
. Bright was only an aasertion of the immorality sod MAIDEN PLATS ad 50 sues. for 2-yr-ol
lotion was recommended. If this bill peened, small proper- injustice
injustice of the law, which was one that would be got rid bit Sib. Half a mile.
alas would be so frequently sold and subdivided that they
Gawerrdof hereafter, by himself in combination with the Attorney- Mr'
Puke of r T°totenC:rAdralral Fitar
li : would very soon disappear altogether. If . they meant to
constitution ,whofenakitheeywere employed in overthrowing thee .
CaptfainaoLanewing's Ruth
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attack the law of real property, let them bring an a gene
country. e ground Fby B
I I 't
. Measure, and not thus attack it by a eidewind.
The Al,,,rousgy..GENßßA/.. sail that he mad existing law was applied to landed property was that that
. Laad-Eaid of Lincoln, Brown T
I 1 aot help thinking that in a co un by in which a property was associated with the stability of our institu- salter d'Esprii, and Indy Clintor
tons, which was not necessarily the case with regard to Betting" sto 2 sot the Maid
I , . i bereditary peerage was a national institution, there ral Fitzroy, bto 1 apt lady C'
I 1,
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must be some system of devolution of castes Pccally•
E. JAMES pointed out that the law of the dis- other,
to conformity with that peerage. (Ofposition cheer_ . Mr. . . ._, THE GRAND STAND BAND
pssitton of personal property under intestacy uiduaeu
It seemed to him that considerab e benefits added ; winners extra. Fir
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\l, ll properties together. (Hear, hear.) There was more sense extend beyond several and this Mr. Bowes s claws
which might generations, •
1 1 , II el responsibility, more anxiety to make improvements, was one amongst many reasons for assimilating the law Lord Bateman" Queen
HI
1,1 ti 1 ' and those improvements were of a more permanent governing real MV PS, in such cases to that relating i° Betting: Even on In.'
character. Then the class of large landowners stood as • personalty. 6to 1 agst Clams, and
i , •Lord J. MANNERS asked if in the case of the death, THE ETON BANDIC
II bulwark between the throne and the people, whilst at the
time the maintained the most beneficial and
same y intestate, of the owner of a palace or hall, it mast not be pawn., and ann.
the
sold by auction. nine.
friendly relations with the latter. In foreign countries, L KING said no doubt
f where there was a mutant division of property, there was Mr. Mat would be case, but alr
T. V. Mo. A. II eathcot
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a tendency todiminisb all intervening grades of society, and the bill would not affect greaflanded estates, all of which Mr. J. Wood's 7
Mr. n'
i ultimately to increase the power of the actual government were in settlement. The following
1 at the expense of the whole people. (Opposition cheers.) After observations from Mr. Hibbert Mr. Ewart, Sir J.
Walsh, and Mr. Barrow, , Sldewlnd, Stine
1 It was in fact a taking away of those bulwarks whichßetting ; 9 1
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' arose in • gradation of classes. This of course was an The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had agst Skirmlsb
incidental benefit of the law of primogeniture, but the not intended to address the house on the subject, nor should ViyeLost,ge
i 7I ' ii question was, was the law itself unjurt ? He thought he thenof enter into it at any. length. The question was u
newrs !ix*,
I 1 • quite the reverse, as that through it younoer eons, instead one
i ._ very great Interest and importance, and he should
sot like to address the house upon it without endeavour- Mr. J.
1 ' , , of sharing their father's patrimony and living apart as a
elms, were sent oat into the world to seek their fortunes in lag to make himself fully and accurately acquainted with Mr. I,
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. ! time army, the navy, the learned professions, or in trede. all its bearings. As he had been appealed to, however, The
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1 More and more be believed landowners would be inclined it would not have been respectful to have allowed the Paiute
division to be taken without saying a word.
to train up their younger sons in the ranks of the people, Though he Se'
t i I , and to get rid of those absurd distinctions which held was far from regarding the present state of the law as • 7
• 1 1 ;,' . 1 I that some commercial occupations were worthy of a gentle- perfect he was opposed to the principle of this bill, and Ih,
Li i ' 1 man, whilst others were not. (Hear, hear.) He thought be was not aware of any sufficient reason for pawing such ; p
11111 ,' ' that a very great advantage. (Hear, hear.) With mud a measure. The government
had not thought it a matter
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.1 . to any small properties ; they were not likely under any on which it was necewary or perhaps becoming for them, 1
I. , eintimstances to remain long in the same family, and
• therefore the instances in which they grew into large as a government, to take part in the discussion, but the
Attorney-General had explained his views with great
force and clearness ; and without referring to particulf
awe were not frequent. We should not, however, do any-
. lexpressions or any incidental sentiments, in those gene'
I thing to make such changes less frequent, as nothing
,i , • • i satisfactory, in a national point of view, views and conclusions the government, or at any rate
could be more
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than the gradual growth of small properties into larger
(II hear.)
ones. If they, under this bill, trade it necessary that sac,
large proprietors, whilst the proceeds would be sweated (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) heartily concur
The house
Agiins elti:ded-
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1 ' ' every small estate should be sold, the result would be
For the second reading
• 1 1 that ultimately they would fall into the hands of a few
The bill was, therefore, thrown out.
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' with meta, and completely frittered away. These were hie
views at present ;he should be glad to be convinced if they FELLOWS OF COLLEGES DECLARATIO'
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1 were wrong, but until then he must disapprove of men- t Mr. BOUYERIE having moved the third re,
• 1 i! rums like the present. (" Hear, hear," from the oppo. , Fellows of Colleges Declaration Bill,
anion.) Mr. G. HARDY moved its rejection, conte
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1 ' Mr. BRIGHT-I was not aware until I entered the introduced a principle perfectly new, nio
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~ house that this question was to be discussed today, awl teaching power in colleges might be code
therefore it is not my intention to trouble the house with who might desire to introduce diverse re'
many observations. The speech of the learned Attorney- or no religious teaching at all. lie prat
General was one which we have often heard on this sub- injustice of dealing in the manner
; •I • jest, but I live in hope of bearing him make one exactly endowments of colleges, which, in far
contradictory. (A laugh.) I think it is extremely confiscate.
probable. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned Mr. POWELL seconded the amend
I. !
I' I 1 gentleman began by saying that the charge against the Mr. FAWCEIT wished to rerr
present law, of injustice, was a charge which had yet to Rion which prevailed that the bil
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be established. Of particular cases of injustice he made Human catbolics. He could say d
• no
u coiaminpalaitioentin;but
ia flawsh,owuoldodlikhee tobeaswdlingk him ,aoff
etxhuerendbier started
tendei the maoprpelymthentßowlianch
ear:
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1 to all property as well as real? (Hear, hear.) If he. would and was found licit to do so, fun
so extend it, and think that he did no injustice in doing object would be introduced.
11 so, then would I believe all he has said on that point ; that if the system proposed I
but until he does so, I must believe that in tried experimentally, one col
1 his observations to-day he did not mean exactly to try it by electing a &atm
,
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to hat he said. Honourable gentlemen opposite well who was a dissenter,
_to a fe
know that extend this law to all the property of the Mr. C. BENTINCK war
I - the debate was closed at
' ' 1 .on within the next twelve months. There are many forms The other business we
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A us by law, the people are able to bear without the distress
to which I referred, hut if the principle of this law' were Oa
extended to other property it would not last a month. The
bag
Attorney-General tells us that every man is left to perfect
1 freedom of action, but he must know that that is not a fair ADMIRALTY, J
mode of stating the case. Of course a Man has leave to tenant E. C. Roy
I make • will ; but what happens if he does not ?We then Master S. W. '
inflict an injustice on him. Take the case of game. If Assistant-Sur
there is no contract between landlord and tenant the law W. M'Mahon,
I I says that the game belongs to the tenant, because Wizard ;C. F
be has clearly a right to anything that is pro- S. hi'llean (a
.? duced or supported by the land. And so if in
this case the law were equally just and wise,
it would say, if the owner of property had failed at his The con'
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' . 1 death to make any appropriation of such property the law yesterdaF
1 will undertake to do that which it is to be presumed he would Keppel,
t • have done if he had mule a will. If a man leaves children, close i,
i
it is to be presumed that he would have shown some ino having
partiality ; the num who does otherwise is a condemnation &Wen'
nof your law, because he shows that it destroys the sense of Capt
right and wrong, and leads to devises of property contrary dee
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lioll to all • ht. (' Oh, oh," from the opposition.) It in fact we
makes
the last act of a man's life the gnat crime of his w
being. (Cheers, and dissent from the opposition.) I have t
often mind that I would never judge of a man's life and
character until I heard the sort of will he had
, l'• ' made. (Laughter.) Gentlemen opposite treat that
observation with derision and contempt-an effec
i ' , of the bad law on their feelings and judgment. (Chee
• I '' and laughter.) The Attorney-General says that thin
I • not a question of justice or injustice, hut of public pol
He says that with a hereditary peerage it is desimb/
• . lil have the present law. It is admitted that the law,
by itself, may be condemned, but taking it in con
; with the hereditary peerage you must maintain it.
1
I prefer morality and justice to all the peer
dynasties in the world ; but if I were in favou•
1 ; ditary succession, I should be afraid of tying it
age with a law so obviously immoral and unjust
alteration of which we are now discussing. (I
i i The Attorney-Cenend has told ua of the di
aponsibilities of tllo great landowners, as
f '
k . landowners had any duties or responsib,
P hear.) Why, lie might as well he
ng intact great manufactories. 1
• cas we Cerviliireconstantly see small fr
mat
a at ffe
ones,e a much easier task than it
s 1 ill :1 General
mean to
interests. I'
to say that all over
Staten. and in our colonies, the Out;
are not as well performed and in
i 1 manner as in this country ? Why, '
1 o
. lt of the calamities of this country, •
constantly increasing, that its l
gradually becoming the proven-
. of people. (Hear, hear.) I
is not another civilised
11 things take place, thin'
be nothing more depl
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repeat it-he said
, and I quite agree
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUES OF COMMONS:w ADNEBDAY, JUN 6.
REAL ESTATI INTESTACY BILL.

Sight liaidneewed that it wee butt a snip teen*
LW' and comprehensive change In the 1&W of proper/.
He opposed the bill on the ground that it would be a
great injustice on the small holders of real property in
the eeentry.
Mn NEATE argued in favour of the billow being one
of a series of measures which mitigated the stringency of
I theism of real propertyty and • ted it to that which
go
verned .
Mr. WreTEVIDE contended that no answer bad been
given to the speeches delivered against the bill, for that of
Mr. Bright was only an assertion of the and
immoralityd
injustice of the law, which was one that would be go
of hereafter, by himself in combination with the Attorney-
Geaeral, when they were employed in overthrowing the
constitution of the country. The ground on which the
existing law was applied to landed property was that that
property was associated with the stability of our institu-
tions, which was not neoessarlly the case with regard to
personalty.
Mr. E. JAMES pointed out that the law of the
position of personal property under intestacy included
leaseholds, it might be of thousands of scree, and of terms
which might extend beyond several generations, and this
was one amongst many reasons for assimilating the law
governing reel property in such cases to that relating to
personalty.
Lord J. MANNERS salted if in the case of the death,
intestate, of the owner of a palace or hall, it mast not be
sold by auction.
Mr. L KING said no doubt end would be the case, but
the bill would not affect grey landed estates, all of which
were in settlement.
After observations from Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Ewart, Sir J.
Walsh, and Mr. Barrow,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be bad
not intended to address the house on the subject, nor should
he then enter into it at any length. The question was
one of very great interest and importance, and he should
not like to address the house upon it without endeavour-
ing to make himself fully and accurately acquainted with
all its bearings. As he had been appealed to, however,
it would not have been respectful to have allowed the
division to be taken without saying a word. Though he
was far from regarding the present state of the law as
perfect he was opposed to the principle of this bill, and
be was not aware of any sufficient reason for pawing such
a measure. The government had not thought it a matter
on which it was necessary or perhaps becoming for them,
as a government, to take part in the discussion, but the
Attorney-General had explained his views with great
force and clearness ; and without referring to particular
expressions or any incidental sentiments, in those general
views and conclusions the government, or at any rate he
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) heartily concurred.
(Hear, hear.)
The house divided—
For the second reading
Against it
The bill was, therefore, thrown out
FELLOWS OF COLLEGES DECLARATION BILL.
Mr. BOUYERIE having moved the third reading of the
Fellows of Colleges Declaration Bill,
Mr. G. HARDY moved its rejection, contending that it
introduced a principle perfectly new, namely, that the
teaching power in colleges might be conferred on persons
who might desire to introduce diverse religious teaching,
or no religious teaching at all. He protested against the
injustice of dealing in the manner proposed with the
endowments of colleges, which, in fact, it was sought to
confiscate.
Mr. POWELL seconded the amendment.
Mr. FAWCETT wished to remove a misapprehen-
Rion which prevailed that the bill would not apply to
Roman catholics. He could say distinctly that those who
started the movement which produced the measure in-
tended it to apply to Roman catholics, and if it passed
and was found not to do so, another bill carrying out that
object would be introduced. He had authority to say
that if the system proposed by the bill was allowed to be
tried experimentally, one college in Cambridge was ready
to try it by electing a distinguished member of its body,
who was a dissenter, to a fellowship.
Mr. C. BENTINCK was speaking against the bill when
the debate was closed at a quarter to 6 o'clock.
The other business was gone through.
The house adjourned shortly before 6 o'clock.

After our report left
Mr. GO LDL said razotpinion that so important
a bill should have emanated from the government, and not
have been left to • private member. The whole question of
t the law of real property had been carefully considered by
the royal commission of '29-33? and no alteration in legis-
lation was recommended. U this bill pawed, small proper-
ties would be so frequently sold and subdivided that- they
would very noon disappear altogether. If they meant to
attack the law of real property, let them bring in • general
Measure, and not thus attack it by a sidewind.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that be could
not help thinking that in a country in which a
hereditary peerage was a national institution, there
must be some system of devolution of estates
in conformity with that peerage. (Opposition cheers.)
It seemed to him that considerable benefits had
arisen to this country from the practice of keeping landed
properties together. (Hear, hear.) There was more sense
al responsibility, more anxiety to make improvements,
and those improvements were of a more permanent
character. Then the class of large landowners stood as a
bulwark between the throne and the people, whilst at the
same time they maintained the most beneficial and
- friendly relations with the latter. In foreign countries,
where there was a constant division of property, there was
a tendency todiminish all intervening grades of society, and
ultimately to increase the power of the actual government
at the expense of the whole people. (Opposition cheers.)
It was in fact a taking away of those bulwarks which
arose in • gradation of classes. This of course was an
incidental benefit of the law of primogeniture, but the
question was, was the law itself unjust? He thought
quite the reverse, as that through it younger sons, instead
of sharing their father's patrimony and living apart as •
elms, were sent out into the world to seek their fortunes in
the army, the navy, the learned professions, or in trade.
More and more he believed landowners would be inclined
to train up their younger sons in the ranks of the people,
and to get rid of those absurd distinctions which held
that some commercial occupations were worthy of a gentle-
man, whilst others were not. (Hear, hear.) He thought
that • very great advantage. (Hear, hear.) With regard
to any small properties ; they were not likely under any
eiectimstances to remain long in the same family, and
• therefore the instanoes in which they grew into large
mem were not frequent. We should not, however, do any-
thing to make such changes less frequent, is nothing
could be more satisfactory, in a national point of view,
than the gradual growth of small properties into larger
ones. If they, under this bill, made it necessary that
small estate should be sold, the result would be
that ultimately they would fall into the hands of a few
]arks
proprietors, whilst the proceeds would be sweated
ert meta, and completely frittered away. These were his
views at present ; he should be glad to be convinced if they
were wrong, but until then he must disapprove of mea-
sures like the present. (" Hear, hear," from the oppo-
sition.)
Mr. BRIGHT—I was not aware until I entered the
house that this question was to be discussed to-day, and
therefore it is not my intention to trouble the house with
many observations. The speech of the learned Attorney-
General was one which we have often beard on this sub-
ject, but I live in hope of hearing him make one exactly
contradictory. (A laugh.) I think it is extremely
probable. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned
gentleman began, by saying that the charge against the
present law, of injustice, was a charge which had yet to
be established. Of particular cases of injustice he made
• no complaint ; but I should like to ask him, if there be
no injustice in this law, would he be willing to extend it
to all property as well as real! (Hear, hear.) If he would
so extend it, and think that he did no injustice in doing
so, then would I believe all be has said on that point ;
but until he does so, I must believe that in
his observations to-day he did not mean exactly
what he said. Honourable gentlemen opposite well
know that to extend this law to all the property of the
country would involvethe country in convulsion and confu-
sion within the next twelve months. There are many forms
of injustice which, having long been established amongst
us by law, the people are able to bear without the distress
to which I referred, hut if the principle of this law were
extended to other property it would not last a month. The
Attorney-General tells us that every man is left to perfect
freedom of action, but he must know that that is not a fair
mode of stating the case. Of course a man has leave to
make • will ; but what happeps if he does not ? We then
inflict an injustice on him. Take the case of game. If
there is no contract between landlord and tenant the law
says that the game belongs to the tenant, because,
he has clearly a right to anything that is pro-
duced or supported by the land. And so if in
this case the law were equally just and wise,
it would say, if the owner of property had failed at his
death to make any appropriation of such property the law
will undertake to do that which it is to be presumed he would
have done if he had made a will. If a man leaves children,
it is to be presumed that he would have shown some im-
partiality ; the man who does otherwise is a condemnation
of your law, because he shows that it destroys the sense of
right and wrong, and leads to devises of property contrary
to all right. (' Oh, oh," from the opposition.) It in fact
makes the but act of a man's life the gnat crime of his
being. (Cheers, and dissent from the opposition.) I have
often said that I would never judge of a man's life and
character until I heard the sort of will he had
made. (Laughter.) Gentlemen opposite treat that
observation with derision and contempt —an effect
of the bad law on their feeling' and judgment. (Cheers
and laughter.) The Attorney-General says that this is
not a question of justice or injustice, hut of public policy.
He says that with a hereditary peerage it is desirable to I
have the present law. It is admitted that the law, taken I
by itself, may be condemned, but taking it in connexion
with the hereditary peerage you must maintain it. Now,
I prefer morality and justice to all the peerages and
dynasties in the world ; but if I were in favour of here-
ditary succession, I should be afraid of tying up the peer-
age with a law so obviously immoral and unjust us that the
alteration of which we are now discussing. (Loud cheers.)
The Attorney-General has told us of the duties and re-
sponsibilities of t*e great landowners, as if no one but
landuwners had any duties or responsibilities. (Hear,
hear.) Why, lie might as well have a law for
preserving intact great manufactories. (Hear, hear.) In
Lsneashire we constantly see small factories becoming
great ones, a much easier task than it would be did this
law affect manufacturing interests. Does the Attorney-
General mean to say that all over Europe, the United
States, and in our colonies, the duties of the landowner
are not as well performed and in quite as exemplary a
manner as in this country ? Why, it is one of the greatest
of the calamities of this country, and a calamity which is
constantly increasing, that its limited amount of lands
gradually becoming the property of a inure limited number
. of people. (Hear, hear.) I venture to say that there
is not another civilised country in which such
things take place, things than which there could
be nothing more deplorable or inure dangerous.
I shall not tell all I know of the effects of the law on
younger sons ; I am not at liberty to tell all I have heard
. from younger sons on this question—(" hear," and a
laugh) ;—but I remember when two years since I made a
speech in Birmingham on this subject, I came afterwards
to this house, and a younger son came up to me and said
his language, it is true, was not quite parliamentary, but
I trust, under the circumstances, I may be permitted to
repeat it—he said, " I reed your speech at Birmingham,
and I quite agree with you. We are d—d bully used."
(Great laughter, and cheering). I vouch for the accuracy
of the quotation, I have not altered a syllable—(continued
laughter) • —and I deem it a fair answer to the Attorney-
General. (Hear.) I understand the learned gentleman also to
nay that under the present law younger sons descend into
the rank:, of the people, and are trained to commerce and
professions. Well, but that would be equally an argument
for robbing elder sons, and I sin not quite sure that the
learned gentleman would like to see hie principle extended
to every member of the family. If property were more
equally divided younger sous would come into the ranks of
commerce a little later, but if this principle, which is held
sacred nowhere else—which is held to be of a
most pestilent character in every country but this
—(cheers, and loud dissent from the opposition)—
be held seared here, moat we not hold the honourable
member for Westminster to have been right in saying that I
Ragland was an exceptional country? I recollect reading
in the " Life of Jefferson," a man who was twice president
of America, that he considered the greatest act of his I
life to have been the abolition of the laws of primogeniture '
in his native state of Virginia. His tiographer quotes from
a letter, describing the great advantage the abolition had
been to the state, these remarkable words. "Some years
after the abolition of the law there were fewer carriages
and six to be seen, hut there were a great many more car-
riages and pair." (Hear, hear.) And I take it to be fairly
granted that a country is better off where there is a greater
equality of condition, greater division of property, and
not so much practical injustice in the law. (Hear, hear.) I
believe th it in a multitude of cases this law produces in-
justice of the most grievous kind. The cases cited by the
hon. member for East Surrey were only as one in a
thousand. I maintain that nothing can be
worse for the legislature than that they should,
in matters of this kind, maintain a system
which in our own hearts, and upheld in any other way, we
should condemn. If the law be unjust and the instrument
of injustice, how can you expect morality and right prin-
ciple to spread in the minds of the people! (Hear, hear.)
I do not expect that my hon. friend will carry his prin-
ciple today—(laughter from the opposition)—but the day
will come when the principle will be carried. (" Oh,
oh," and great interruption from tho same quarter.)
Gentlemen opposite always believe that they are going to
be ruined ; they seem unable to comprehend any question
connected with land. (Derisive tory cheers.) They be-
lieve that we are hostile to the holders of great
estates—(oh, oh)—we who have done more good
for great estates than the holders ever did them-
selves. We, in discussing this question, owe alle-
giance to the highest principle, to the highest poli-
tical economy, to justice between men and their
children, between states and those whom states govern,
and therefore without any consideration of oonaequences
• we avow ourselves supporters of this bin and believe that
the time will come before long when it will be accepted by
the House of Common and the legislature. (Cheers.)
Mr. HENLEY contended that it was quite char that
the present bill was not intsaded to stand by itself, for

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WINDSOR SUMMER RACES.—WintrihDeT.
HANDICAP OwisPATAKIi of E lOTA each, with 26 midst tot
S-yr-olds and wards ; whiners extra; the winner to be for
i.lOO. About of a mile.
?H. (i. W. male's mama 1
Lord Westmoriend's Idler
Mr. Rickards's Opposition
The following also ran : Sisyphus, NOW Mary, and Victoria.
Betting: sto 2 each apt j'pbus and Idler. 4to 1 sod Ps
gases, and 5 to 1 agst Oppreltion.
Mainini PLATE of 50 sues. for 2-yr-olds ; colts, tat 10Ib ; toes,
Bat MR_ Half a wile.__
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Mr. Taylors
Totegar L
Duke of H amiltoa's Admiral Fitzroy
Captain Ruth 3
The following also ran :—F by Brocket—Texana, eh, Fromised
Land—Maid of Lincoln, Brown Tommy, Maid of the Mill, Che-
valier d'Esprit, and holy Clinton.
Betting: 5 to 2 apt the Maid of Lbicoln colt, 3 to 1 vdt Admi-
ral Fitzroy, 6to 1 apt Lady Clinton, and 10 to blared apt any
other.
THE GRAND STAND HANDICAP, of 6 sova. each, 2 ft, with 40
added ; winners extra. Five furlongs.
Lord Westmorland's Indian Star
Mr. Bowes's Claroe
Lord Batennuis Queen of Trumps
Blue Mantle also ran.
Betting: Been on Indian Star, 5 to 2 apt Queen of Trumps,
5 to 1 apt Clams, and 100 to 15 apt Blue Mantle.
THE ETON HANDICAP of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, with 100 added
penalties and allowances ; the second to save his stake. One
Mr. A. II eatheote's Sldrmish 1
Mr. J. Wood's Bose
Mr. T. V. Morgan's Molly Carew
The following also ran:—Jupiter, Vixen, Viceroy, Nukulovit,
Sldewlnd, Stinger, Kingmaker, and Ammunition.
Betting ; Sto f each apt Molly Carew and Sidewind, 11 to 2
apt Skirmish, 6 to 1 apt Khmtnaker, 7 to 1 aget Bose, 8 to 1 apt
Viceroy, and 100 to eget any other.
HANDICAP PLATE of :4 Boys., for 3-)T-Olds and upwards; win-
ners extra. About half a mile.
Mr. Flemings Cecrops 1
Mr. J. Wood's Soapstone
Mr. Bowes's Claros
The following also ran :—Cranbury, Crown Prince, Signet,
Panacea, Alberta, Volhynia, and f by The Dupe—Eleot's dam.
Betting sto 2 agst Panacea, 3to 1 agst cecrops, 4 to 1 apt
Soapstone, 7 to 1 apt Cranbury, and 100 to 8 apt any other.
THE ROYAL STAIAM, of 15 Boys. each, 6 tt, with 100 added,
for 2.3 m-olds ; colts. 84 121 b ; Hine, Bst Sib ; winners extra
! About 5 furlongs. i 63 subs.)
Count F. de Lagrange's Dragon 1
Mr. T. Parrs Clarice 2
Mr. Chaplin's Satyr 3
The following also ran : Sir Walter, King Charles, Sea Mew,
and c by Koltinoor—Topsail.
Betting 2 to lon Dragon, sto 1 agst Satyr, and 10 to
.1 apt

any other.
Baum; srecss of 5 *ova each, with 25 added, for 2.yr-olds
and upwards; weight for age, with selling and other allow-
ances. About five furlongs.
Lord Westmorland's Practitioner 1
Mr. T. Hughes's Dolphin 2
Mr. W. G. Bennett's Siayphus
Newnham and 'Ciller also ran.
Betting: 7 to 4 agat Practitioner, a to 1 apt Newnham, 5 to 1
agat Dolphin, and 100 to 16 agat Usher. The winner was. sold
to Mr. Jilkea for 30 guineas.
THE DEDWoRTH HANDICAP of 5 sore. each, with 50 added:
for 3-yr-olds and upwards winners extra. About seven furlongs.
Mr. J. Wood's Bose
Mr. Charlile's Allow Me
Lord Westmorland's Lady Sophie 3
The following also ran:—Queen of Trumps, Lytham, and
Pegasus.
Betting : sto 4 agat Lady Sophie, 2 to 1 agat Bose, 100 to 15
agat Lytham, and b to 1 agst Allow Me.
TUN STIWARDs CUP, value 150 soya., by subscription of 10
son. each, with 50 added ; for 3-yr-ords and upwards; weight
for age, with certain penalties and allowances. About one mile
and a half. ,10 subs.;
Mr. W. G. Bennett's Dalhy
BETTING ON THE COURSE.—WEDNF-sDAY.
DEBBY.
25 to 1 agst Dragon A to 000'.
SCRATCHENOS —Cutaway, out of all engagements at Newton, at
3.25 p.m. ; and Blackbtuid and Puritan, at 10 a.m.
ADDITIONAL ARDlVAL.—TaTazippua.

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NEWTON MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
THY TRIAL HANDICAP of 3 sees. each, with 40 added, for all
ages; winners extra. One mile and a quarter. .
_4 subs.)
Mr. E. Buckley, Jun.'s Wynnstay 1
Mr. Mamas Stockinger 2
Mr. J. Milling's Kadclilte
Grapeshot also ran.
Betting : 6 to 4 agat Wyurustly, 2 to 1 agat St.:Unger, and 5 to
1 •• bar two."
Tisk lit•LBoRlIC PARE STAKES of 10 son. each, h ft, with 50
added : for 2-yr-old colts, bet 1011, ; Mlles, Bet 71b, winners extra ;
maiden allowances. Half-a-mile.
Mr. W. Welsby's Lady Rosehill 1
Mr. IL Osborne's Deceit 2
Mr. Eastwood's Rejoinder
Wed Lancashire also ran.
Betting : 2 to 1 on Ludy Hoschill, 4 to 1 agat Rejoinder, 9 to 2
agst Deceit.
THE GliliAS NEwTON CCP of 5 soya. each, with 150 added;
winners extra. About one mile and fire furlongs. (20 subs.;
Mr. H. B. Harene's Conundrum'
Mr. Phillip's Arkansas 2
1 Mr. Barber's Helen
The following also ran:—Wandering Minstrel, Empress of
India, Carperby, and Edgbaston.
Betting : 2 to I agst Conundrum, 3 to 1 agst Emprtas of India,
sto 1 agst Arkansas, 7 to I agst Helen, 10 to 1 each agat Eilg-
baton and ('aperbj, 10e to 8 agst Wandering MinstreL Won by
a length ; bad third. Empress of India fell.
THE MAiiiIIiriELDIIANDicAP of 100 soya. for all ages ; whiners
nix.. lialt-a mile.
Mr. W. Phillips's Persuasion
Mir. Wadlow's Kenilworth..
Air. Clayton's Court Slilliner
The following also ran :--Linea and Beguiu.
Betting: 6to 4 agst Persuasion, sto 2 abet Kenilworth, +5 to 1
apt any other.
Tux MAHAN CLATZ . Handicap) of 40 son. for 3-yr-olds and
upwards ; penalties and allowances. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. W. Hudson's Duty Free
Mr. Copeland's The Dannebrog 2
Mr. G. Dalton's The Gleaner 3
Linda also ran.
Betting: 6t04 on Duty }tee, sto 2 apt Dannebrug. Won by
two lengths; bad third.
BETTING ON THE COITASE.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
1
7 to 1 apt Caithness ,t) 10 to 1 agst Lady Vain (t)
Bto 1 Windham .t. 11 to 1 Dolan (t)
oto 1 Miss Haworth Y. 12 to 1 Zenubla ~t)
HAMPTON RACFS.—FRIDAY.
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THE WOL4EY PLATE . Dandiest,' of 100 sues.. for all ages ; the
winner of any race after May 31, at ten am., 7th extra. One mile.
Age 8t lb Age at lb
Attaché
thalmersham 4 8 12 Ulu°
Lytham
Mougrel
Vixen
Catalogue ...... .... 4 7 2 Lydia
Day-rell
Kingmaker
Viceroy
Juliet
Brimstone 3 6 9
THE SCURRY STAKES 'Handicap' of 10 sore. each, 3 ft, with 20
added ; gentlemen riders : professionals, 71b extra. One mile.
tot HUsHY PAItIL PLATE of 30 sore., added to a sweekstakes
of 5 soya. each ; 2-yr-olds, 7st 31b ; three, bat IR/ ; four, tist 121 h ;
five and upwards, lUat 211, ; penalties ; selling and other allow-
ances. half a mile straight.
HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 1(0 guineas; 3-Yrohls. Sat; four,
get 7lb ; live, 9sL 1::lb ; six and aged, 1051 Two nines.
DIE RAILWAY PLATE of 50 WWI given by the fhaith-Western
Railway Company, added to a sweepstakes of 5 Roes. each ; 2.-yr.
olds, let ; three, 'At : peualtles ; selling and other allowances.
Five furlongs.
THE VISITORS' PLATE 'Handicap) of 50 soya., for all ages ; the
winner of any race after May 31, at 104a.m., Sib extra. Three-
quarters of a mile.
Age at lb Age at lb
Attaché
Oodmersham 4 8 12 Papoose
The Beadle 5 8 5 Valeria
Glendusk
Vixen
Brimstone S 7 0 Varnish
Catalogue
'riot NURSERY STAKES of 50 SOYA., for 2-yr-olds, added to a
sweepstakes of 5 soes. each, 2 ft ; the winner of the Claremont
Stakes 71b, and the winner of any other race after May 31, at 10
am.. slb extra ; weights not accumulative. Half a mile straight
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8 8 Ambitious
8 8 Nursery Girl.
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8 3 Challenge
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8 1 Bonne Fortune 7 7
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HENRY KELLEY, THE CHAMPION OP THE THAMES.
—Last evening about 44.10 gentlemen and others, well
known in connexion with aquatics, met to do honour to
Henry Kelley, the champion of the Thames, by the pre-
sentation to him of a splendid and massive silver cup, in
commemoration of his victory over Robert Chambers, of
Newcastle, in August last, and in appreciation of his abi-
lities as a *culler and his character as a public man. The
supper and accompanying presentation took place in Can-
terbury-hall, the ordinary performance being set apart for
this night only, and Mr. Charles Morton having catered
with his usual ability. The supper was served to nearly
200 people, while about the same number were in the gal-
lery, and Mr. Thomas Beard, the well known solicitor,
took the chair, faced by Mr. Charles Bush, of book-
making celebrity. The noted persons present are too
numerous to mention. The usual toasts were fol-
lowed by that of the evening, in giving which the chairman
dwelt upon the brilliant victory Kelley had achieved, and
the prestige he had restored to the banks of the Thames,
the only proper home of the championship. He concluded
by a wish that Kelley might live long to retain the title
against both Southerner and Northerner, and then handed
him the testimonial, which is a massive silver vase-shaped
cup, 34 inches in height, standing on a plateau of rockwork
and water, with water-lilies growing, and swans gracefully
floating. It is surmounted by a figure of Britannia pre-
senting • laurel wreath, and on its sides are • view of
Putney and • representation of a boat race, and it is in-
scrided—" Presented by subscription to Henry Kelley,
in recognition of his skill and prowess as a gentler, and in
commemoration of his having on August Bth, 1865, restored
to the banks of the Thames the possession of the chara-
pionship of England." Its handles are formed of figures of
Father Thames, with bulrushes and water-lilies entwined,
and the whole is the design and manufacture of J. J.
Huntly, No. 13, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square, W.
The testimonial weighs nearly 300 ounces, and is valued at
/VC, and one of the handsomest ever offered to any public
man. A suitable reply was made by the champion, sad
other toasts ;and amusements kept the company together
till a late hour.

. a 4.4 OPINION ON RITUAL.
A ease on " the ornaments of the minister,"
which has beapect out at great length, has been submitted
to'oounsel by Mr. G. J. Ottaway, solicitor, 39, Essex-
street; eked, on behalf d "several archbishops and
bishops of the united Church of England and Ireland." It
occupies some forty °may° pages, and concludes by asking
the following questions:—L Suppose a clergyman of the
established church of England to administer the Holy
Communion in a parish church, habited in the vestments
prescribed by King Edward Vl.'s First Prayer-book (1549),
does he infringe the law, and commit an offence cognisable
b any legal tribunal ? 2. Suppose him to introduce into
the Communion Service the use of two or more lights on
the communion-table not burnt for the sake of giving
light, but as an ingredient in the service itself; or the use
of incense burnt in thuriblesor censers for miming persons
or things; or the ceremonial mixing of water with the sacra-
mental wine; or the use of wafers instead of bread such as is
usual to be esten; or the use of hymns before or after the
prayer of consecration, or at the time of administering the
elements ; does he thereby infringe the law and commit
an offence cognisable by any legal tribunal' 3. What
would be the best way in which tontine these questions so
as to obtain a decision upon them /
The following is the opinion obtained :—L We are of
opinion thlt the first question should be answered in the
affirmative. A careful consideration of the language of the
Act of Uniformity of 1662, and the rubric of the Prayer-
book, and a comparison of that language with the previous
rubrics and enactments applicable to the question, lead
us to the conclusion that the intention of the legislature
was not to revive or restore the use of any ornaments
which had become obsolete. The statute of Elisabeth,
as altered by the Advertisements, had been recognised by
the Liturgy and canons of James, in 1604, and appears
unquestionably to have been in force down to 1662; and
since there is nothing in the statute of that year (except so
far as it establishes the rubric) which touches the point, it
is by the rubric alone that the practice, which had been
established bythe Advertisements, can have been altered or
repealed. We do not think that the rubric has, or was
intended to have, this effect. On the contrary, it would
seem to only apply to such ornaments of the minister as
are common to all times of his ministration, and to point
to a retention of such as were then in use, rather than to a
revival of such as had been displaced by the advertise-
ments. This interpretation is supported by the universal
practice which has prevailed from 1662 down to the present
time, and which affords a " contemporaneous expo-
sition " of the rubric, to which great weight would
beattached by every court of law in England. 2. We
are of opinion that the second question should
also be answered in the affirmative. We think that the
use of lights in the manner indicated in the question is
illegal. The point is, in fact, res yedscans, having
been settled by Dr. Lushington's judgment, to
which we have been referred. We think the use of in-
cense in the way suggested clearly unauthorised and
illegal. The ceremonial mixing of water with the wine,
as a significant act in the course of the service, appears to
us to be illegal. We think that wafers would not be con-
sidered to be bread within the meaning of the rubric re-
ferred M. The introduction of hymns, either immediately
before or after the prayer of consecration, or during the
administration of the elements, appears ft us to be unau-
thorised and illegal, since it would interfere with the un-
broken continuity of the service. 3. In answer to the
third questton, we consider that a proceeding under the
Church Discipline Act of 1640 would be the only way to
raise these questions so as to obtain a decision upon them.—
(Signed) HOUNDELL PALMER, H. M. CAIRNS, GEORGE
MELLISH, FRANCIS BARROW. —Lincoln's-inn, May 29, 1866.

THE BISHOP OF LONDOB'S FUND.
--*--

Yesterday morning the annual service in aid of
the Bishop of London's " fund for providing for the
spiritual wants of the metropolis and its suburb'," was
held in Westminster Abbey. There was full choral
etrvice, and the ordinary abbey choir was supplemented by
some of the voluntary choir who sing at the Sunday even-
ing services in the nave. There was a crowded congrega-
tion, among whom were the Lord Bishop of London and
Mrs. Tait, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord Lyt-
telton, Mr. J. G. and the Hon. Mrs. Talbot, the Bishop
designate of Nelson (Rev. A. B. Suter), and about fifty of
the clergy in their (gowns or gowns and hoods within the
sacrarium and in other parts of the Abbey,
Mr. H. Trotter and Lady Marjorihanks, &c. The
Abbey clergy present were the Very Rev. the
Dean ; the Rev. Lord John Thynne, D.D., sub-
dean; the Rev. Canons Nepean, Conway, and Haw-
kins, B.D. ; the Rev. Minor Canons J. Lupton, S. F.
Jones, and C. M. Arnold. The music was splendidly ren-
dered (especially the "Hallelujah Chorus" and "Jerusalem
the Golden"). It was as follows :—Responses, Tallis ;
Psalms, Turle, No. 39 ; service, Turk in D ; anthem,
" Hallelujah," Handel; Introit, " Jerusalem the Golden ;"
Kyrie and Creed, 'Pude in D. Prayers were chanted by
the Rev. Minor Canon Lupton, and the lessons read by the
Rev. Canon Nepean ; the communion service was said by
the Rev. Lord John Thynne, D.D. ; the epistle being read
by the Rev. J. Lupton. The sermon was preached by the
Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Stanley), who wore the riband of
the Bath, from Psalm li. 18, " Build Thou the walls of
Jerusalem. The Holy Communion was celebrated after
the sermon, and a collection made from the whole congre-
gation.