The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

JUDICIAL STATISTICS.

Lord BROUGHAM said he roes to move for a return to
which he took it fur granted these would be no opposition.
It was known to most of their lordahips that a greet inter
national statistical oeuvres bad recently been held in Lon-
don under the presidency of his Royal Highness the Prince
Conaort,who executed Lis office with hie usual courtesy and
talent. He (Lord Brougham) had the honour of presiding
over one section, the section of judicial statistics, in
consequence, no doubt, of his having some
ago brought that subject before their lordships. Judicial
statistics were absolutely essential to good government, in-
asmuch as without them they had no means of knowing
the necessity of change in old laws, or the effect of new
ones. In the absence of his royal highness be also presided
over the meeting of the general congress, br which the re-
port be was about to move for was unanimously adopted. He
was directed to transmit the report to the Secretary for the
Home Department, and as it contained very important in-
formation, he moved for the production of that report.
The motion was agreed to.
MINES REGULATION AND EiSPECTION BILL
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This 1.111 WWI read s third time.
TENURE AND IMPIL2VEMEFIC OF LAND (IRE.

LAND) BILL.
Earl GRANVILLE moved that the house should go into
coeunittee upon thin bill.
Loed DUNGANNON, in moving that the bill be referred
to • sth.ct committee, disclaimed having any hostility to
the mciattre, but said it win one of great importance, mate-
rially affecting the interaita and position of landlords in
Ireland, and had been intnaluced at a time when most
Irish peers bad left town.
The question on the original motion wan put. The
numbers were :
Content, 34
Noncootents 3O-4
The bill then passed through assontittee, and the house
resumed.

CONJUGAL RIGHTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The house going into committee cm this bill,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said be did not mean to
propose any amenibnents. The object of the bill was to limit
the jurisdiction of the Divorce Curts in Scotland to cases
where the parties had been wholly domiciled in Scotland.
Hitherto it bad been held by the cicorPli courts that forty
days' residence was enough, and also that if either of the
parties had been once domiciled in Scotland, although he
might afterwards have been settled for yearn in England,
and married in England, the case came under the
jurisdiction. This view had, however, been disputed by
the courts in England, and the consequence
that • divorce there pronounced might be valid
in Scotland and not valid in England, that a
woman might be the wife of one person on the
north of the Tweed, and of another person on the south, and
the children might be legitimate in one country and illegiti-
mate in the other. It was to get rid of that monstrous
anomaly that the bill was introduced. He regretted that
from the learned Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh it still
encountered some opposition. They wished to claim
a jurisdiction for the Scotch courts, rations &Geri,
where the offence of adultery bad been committed
in Scotland ; but though that argument might apply
in case of a prosecution, supposing adultery to be an indict-
able offence, it should not give a local jurisdiction, in •
civil suit like this, to the courts where the act was com-
mitted.