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THURSDAY. MAY 21, 1857

THE DAY'S NEWS.

" New brooms sweep clean." There were at one
time yesterday upwards of 300 members in the
House of Commons—not that the business was of
any special importance. Petitions against the
elections for Taunton and Beverley were presented,
but for what reason the telegraph does not say
The bill for the better regulation of long
leases in Scotland was read a second
time ; after which the Industrial Schools Bill
was considered in committee. A number of
clauses were inserted by the promoters of the bill,
and it was ordered to be printed. Lord Goderich
had previously moved that the bill be read a second
time that day three months. The Right Hon. T.
M. Baines was in favour of the principle of the
bill, but he was against the machinery by which it
was proposed to be carried out. Mr. Ruebuck
thought that Government, seeing that they were
in favour of the principles involved in the hill,
should have taken it out of the hands of a private
member, and given it all the weight which the
Ministry possessed. The Judgments Execution
bill was considered clause by clause in coin
mittee, and a determined opposition was made
to several of them, but without avail, the first
clause passing the house by a vote of 137 to 43
On clause two a lengthened discussion took place,
during which Mr. Napier moved that the Chairman
report progress, but the motion was defeated by
187 agaipst ti 9. The clause ultimately passed by
a vote of 179 to 92, and progress was made as far as
the 6th clause, when the house resumed, and leave
was obtained to bring in several bills, after which
the house adjourned.
In the division list of the votes in the House of
Lords on the Divorce Bill on Tuesday night,
we find the names of ten bishops for the bill, and
five against it.
It is currently reported that considerable
excitement has been manifested within the last
few days, in consequence of its being understood
that the solicitors under the bankruptcy of the
Royal Br tish Bank have received intimation from
her Maj 'sty's Attorney-general that it is the
intention of the government to institute a prose-
cution. If this announcement be correct, nothing
can he more satisfactory to the mercantile com-
munity.
Tuesday evening the annual meeting of the
Peace Society was held in London, Charles
Hindley, Esq . M.P. in the chair. The secrete y, the
Rev. Henry Richards, read an extract from the
report, which was adopted, after which a series
of resolutions in conformity with the objects of
the society was carried. The meeting, which was
thinly atten let, was addr, SApd by several gentle-
men well known for their promulgation of peace
opinions.
An airhorised statement has been published, to
the effect that the Ginvocatien of the prelates
and clergy of the province of Canterbury will be
prorogued by commission tr.-ilay to a further
day, and that no business will be transacted.
It seems to be now almost certain that Mr.
William M.)nsell. M.P., for Limerick county, is to
be Mr Horsman's successor in the chief secre-
taryship of Ireland. It would be difficult to
imagine a more objectionable appointment. Mr.
Monsell is a pervert from Protestanism to Roman
Catholicism. On the strength of his perversion
he became the Priests' candidate for the County of
Limerick, and was returned When the Aberdeen
C'atition attained to power—a Ministry
whose Government of Ireland was a
deep scanoal, and whose appointments were
selected from among blacklegs and swindlers—
the desire was to purchase the adhesion of the
Ultramontane party Such scoundrels as O'Fla-
herty and Sadleir were then brought into notice
and rewarded with Government appointments--
simply and entirely because they were intriguing
and disreputable Catholics. '` It is not," says
the Belfast Mercury, " because Mr. Monsell is
a professing Roman Catholic that we object to
his appointment. We object, first, to Lim
politically, that if the office has any
responsible duties attached to it, he is not
qualified to fill it. But the main ground of
objection is this—it is neither gracious nor
calculated to conciliate, to place in the Chief Secre
taryship of Ireland a perverted Protestant. It is
calculated to give the Ultramontane party a
triumph—to expose the whole Administration of
the Government of Ireland, through the discordant
machinery of Dublin Castle, to greater oppobrium
than is even now directed against it. It is an un-
necessary insult to the Protestant feeling of the
country in all its phases—it is an indecent, osten-
tatious parade of the desire (-)f the government to
pander n. to a party that has grow arrogant under
concession, and more insolently aggressive from
all the efforts that have been made to conciliate
them.'
The inquest on the bodies of the two men who
lost their lives by the explosion of the boiler of A
locomotive at Edge Hill, some time ago, was
resumed, and concluded yesterday. The jury
ultimately came to a verdict, censuring the care-

lessness of the Superintendent of the Looomot-ve
Department of the London and North Western
Railway, as evinced by him when the engina,
St. Patrick, was being repaired in August !sit.
Parts of the boiler were totally unfit for use. As
the jury did not directly imply that gross negli-
gence was exhibited by the Superintendent, the
verdict does not amount to one of manslaughter.
The usual meeting of the West Derby Board of
Guardians was held yesterday. The business was
almost confined to that of n routine character. A
letter from the Secretary of 1,..<.. was read
oy the chairman respecting the late alleged inter-
ference of his steward in the election for guardians
of the union. The letter is to the effect that the
Earl of Sefton never warranted any interference,
and that no such interference as complained of ever
did take place. This statement did not satisfy the
board, and the clerk was directed to answer it, and
state that it was not at all satisfactory to the
guardians.
The news from the Continent this morning is
not of much importance. From the Principalities
there is no direct intelligence. Letters from Vienna
assert that the Kaimakan of Wallachia intends
again to adjourn the elections, but as this is in
contradiction to the instructions he has received
from Constantinople, we must wait for direct com-
munications before coming to a conclusion.
The Siecle, of Paris, has, it appeared, received an
official " note" from the government, warning the
editor not to speak so plain respecting the elec-
tions. A Paris correspondent says that very nearly
the same deputies will be presented as candidates.
The elections are, in truth, only a matter of form,
as the people seem utterly careless about the exer-
cise of their rights, and the difficulty is to make
the electors come forward in something likerespect-
able numbers. Political life is torpid in France
Some extraordinary event might rouse the public
mind from its lethargy, and, when roused, the
awaking would, indeed, be felt.
The telegraph reports a curious scene in the
Spanish Cortes, and which looks like a pre-arranged
affair. The reader will perhaps recollect that the
intention has been ascribed to Marshal O'Donnell,
who has entered into alliance with the Pro-
gressista Senators, to make a dashing attack
on Marshal Narvaez's Government in the
Senate. He has been now anticipated, so
as to render his task difficult, for one
of the adherents of Narvaez moved an
amendment to the reply to the Speech from
the Throne, condemning the conduct of the
Vicalvarist generals. On this Narvaez rose and
said he would not hear of such a thing, as the
Queen and the Ministers were bent upon " con
ciliation." The Cortes unanimously rejected the
amendment. It seems to us that it was only
moved to give Narvaez the opportunity for this
declaration, and to give the Cortes another oppor-
tunity for putting down beforehand all intended
quarrels.
The Northern Bee, of St. Petersburg, contradicts
the story of the crew of the Russian frigate
Aurora having been attacked after laading on the
coast of China.

The good understanding which the Neufchatel
negotiations have led France and Prussia into, is
to be further increased by a visit of Louis Napo-
leon to Berlin.

We have a confirmation from Copenhagen of the
announcement that Denmark hai yielded to the
claims of the German Confederation on behilf of
the Duchies.

The Austrian Amnesty has began to operate and
prisoners have been released, while Hungaritr,
refugees are returning to their country.
The news from the ',avant is Uninteresting.

IT may be recollected that last session the Lord
Chancellor introduced a bill into the Upper
House in order to improve the present law touch-
ing Divorce. When Parliament was suddenly
dissolved, that bill along with several others had
to be dropped. It is now re-introduced under
the title of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
Bill. After considerable opposition by several
of the bench of bishops, the second reading has
passed by a majority of forty-seven to eighteen.
The Bishops of London and St. David's, together
with the Archbishop of Canterbury, may be said
to have rather approved of the bill, reserving some
exceptions; the Bishops of Oxford, Salisbury,
and several others opposed. Many references,
of courme, were made to Scriptural interpretations,
the Lord Chancellor himself wisely declining to
enter on that debated field. Lord LYNDHURST
cordially accepted the principle of the bill, and
made a luminous criticism on one or two of the
details With great strength of reason he con-
tended that the bill should give equal relief to
the injured wife as to the injured husband. The
bill is intended to lessen the expence attending
matrimonial suite, and to remove the complication
which attends the going through three tribunals
before the one object can be attained. Divorce
is of two degrees, or two kinds. There is
first divorce " a mensa et More—divorce
from bed and board, or simple separa-
tion ; next, divorce " a vinculo matrimonii "
liberation from the marriage bond. Instead of
the three suits and the three courts, the Chan-
cellor proposes to substitute one, to consist of
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, and
a Judge of the Court of Probate. This would
be a great simplification of the present method
of procedure, which is first open only to the
aggrieved husband, and next requires him to
bring an action for criminal conversation at une
court, then sends him to a second, an Ecclesias-
tical Court; and if he requires complete divorce
from the marriage bond, and can afford to spend
Two Thousand Pounds, forwards him to the
House of Lords. A single court to try all matri-
monial cases is the common sense view of the
matter. The evidence is to be taken viva voce
by calling witnesses. This promises to be at
once far cheaper and more expeditious.
The introducer of the bill is very anxious to
protect himself against the suspicion of desiring
to make the marriage tie easily dissolved. All
the speakers very earnestly agree in this.
In case of legal separation of husband and wife,
the wife shall ever afterwards have complete
control of her own person and property. No
profligate husband shall be able then as now to
step in, and appropriate to his own use the
earnings of his wife, which she may hare gained
by the exercise of her own talent or industry, or
acquired by..bequest. The bill does not propose
to permit the re-marriage of the parties, unless
where complete divorce has been obtained from
the marriage bond, in consequence of proved
conjugal infidelity. In case of an allowance to
the wife, it is proposed that this should be paid,
not to her directly, but to trustees on her behalf.
Finally, this bill is no mere extempore effort of
the first Law Lord, but is founded on the Report
of Royal Commissioners, so far back as 1850.
The Chancellor professes to do little more than
merely to embody and give form to their sugges-
tions. In the bill of last session, a clause
forbade the offending guilty parties to marry