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fided to the constabulary of Ireland. He concurred with
the hon. member who had just spoken, that the doctors
were the right men to be employed as registrars, though it
would be well to leave a certain discretion, as to the persons
to be appointed, to the boards of guardians.
Mr. M'MAHON said it would be his duty to offer oppo-
sition to t' .e bill. The taxpayers who would be called upon
to pay £116,000 requhe'l by the bill, would not get any
value for their money unless th 3 bill were to incorporate
provisions for the registration of marriages. The real diffi-
culty in the registration of marriages was making it a penal
offence to celebrate mixed marriages. That act, which was
totally unfit for the present century, ought to be repealed,
and then there would be no difficulty about introducing a
useful measure.

Mr. GEORGE was surprised that so long time had
been allowed to elapse without introducing a bill for the
celebration of marriages. He did not think there would be
any difficulty in bringing in, as contemporaneous measures,
a bill for the registration of marriages as well as one for the
registration of births and deaths, and at the same time a
bill to regulate the law of marriages in Ireland. He ob-
jected to the registrars in the proposed bill being paid out
of local rates.

Sir G. BOW YER thought the right hon. baronet had
acted wisely in bringing in a bill for births and deaths, and
in omitting the subject of marriages. He believed that the
marriage law in Ireland was satisfactory in its present state
to the Roman Catholics, and his advice was to interfere
with it as little as possible.

After a few words from Sir R. PEEL in reply, the bill
was brought in and read a first time.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR moved the appointment of the
select committee of last year to inquire into the present
state of the Ecclesiastical Commission, and to report to the
house whether the ecclesiastical revenues cannot be more
advantageously administered for the interests of the church
than they are at present.

Several returns were ordered, and the house adjourned at
a quarter before 8.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Henry Francis Howard, Esq., her
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary at the Court of Hanover; Augustus Berkeley Paget,
Esq., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary at the Court of Denmark ; and Edward
Esc,., E,., her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Argentine Republic, to be Ordinary Members of the
Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. G.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Caroline Augusta,
Dowager Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, now Extra Lady
of the Bedchamber to her Majesty, to be one of the Ladies
of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room
of Maria Anne, Lady Macdonald, resigned.

DOWNING STREET, -FEL 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Brevet Colonel
Stephen John Hill, C.B. (now Captain-General and Go-
vernor-in-Chief in and over the colony of Sierra Leone), to
be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the
Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Saint Christopher, Nevis,
the Virgin Islands, and Dominica and their dependencies.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Richard
Pine, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over her Majesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold
Coast and their dependencies.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. W.
Roberts as Vice-Consul at Weymouth for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.

-WHITEHALL, FEE. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to present the WIN?. Thomas
Dykes to the charge and office of first minister of the
united churches and parishes of Ayr and Alloway, in the
Presbytery and shire cf Ayr, vacant by the transportation
of the Rev. William Shaw to the church and parish of
Alloa.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 7.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Reigate.—Granville William Gresham Leve-
son Gower, of Titsey Park, in the county of Surrey, in the
room of the Hon. William John Monson, now Lord Mon-
son, summoned to the House of Peers.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Joseph Peiigoe, builder, Tunbridge Wells
Charles Garner, farmer, late East Grinstead
James Hunt, plumber, Sheffield

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of any importance
which appear in the Gazette:—
Charles Fox, builder, Lincoln
William Spreat, currier, Gloucester
George Mitton, publican, Liverpool
Wm. Chapman, engineer, Bath
John Finch, builder, Frimley, Surrey
Richard Boardman, car proprietor, Liverpool
George Keeble, painter, Ipswich
John Weare, farmer, Wellebury, Somersetshire
Henry Eland, grocer, Blaydon, Durham
Adam Carter, ale merchant, Bolton
Thomas Rushforth, joiner, Huddersfield
Thomas Long, machine broker, Burnley
George Evans, farmer, Hodnet, Salop
John Jones, grocer, King's cross
John Pengelly, draper, Brighton
John Arkell, shoe maLufacturer, Hoiton
Richard Gale, barge builder, Poplar
George Cappel, merchant's clerk, Camberwell

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Pearson, farmer, Broadley, Nairn
Joseph Maxwell, bricklayer, Dumbarton
James Lillie, sewed muslin manufacturer, Glasgow
Alex. Black, wood merchant, Whanland
Robert Livingston, coalmaster, Rawyards, near Airdrie
Ewen M'Kenzie, painter, Glasgow
Messrs. Smiths and Mackay, ironfounders, Inverness
Alexander Morrison, cab proprietor, Partick
William Asher, bookseller, Nairn
Thomas Lough, cabinet maker, Edinburgh

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
16 to 1 on the field (offered)
25 to 1 sgst Shropshire (taken freely)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
25 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (offered)
30 to 1 agst Gardener (offered)
33 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken)
GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Grimston (taken freely)
12 to 1 agst Croagh Patrick (offered)
100 to 6 bar two

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to lon the field (offered)
10 to 1 agat Michael Scott (taken)
16 to 1 aget Tom Fool (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
20 to lon the field (offered)

ARRIVALS AT READING.

Light of Other Days, Alma, Mutineer, Omar Pasha,
Corkscrew, Sapperton, Oliver Twist, Windsor, Ascot,
Cockatoo, Playman, Gamecock, Long Odds, Deceiver,
and Bayard.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln 25

MARCH.
Nottingham Spring 3 I Doncaster Spring l6
Derby Spring
Liverpool Spring 10 Northampton .. 24
Shrewsbury l2 Croxton Park 27

APRIL.
Newmarket Craven.. 6 I Liverpool Hunt Club.. .. 10
Durham . 6 Thirsk
Knighton. 7 Epsom Spring 16
Llanboidy..
Catterick Bridge.. 8 York Spring ...28
Abergavenny ... 9 Salisbury

Electric and International Telegraph
Company.

MEETING THIS DAY.

At the half•yearly meeting of the Electric and Inter-
national Telegraph Company, held to-day, the Right Hon.
Robert Grimston in the chair, a dividend for the half-year
of 31 per cent., or 7 per cent. per annum, was recommended
to be declared. The report stated that notwithstanding the
numerous reductions in the rates which have been made
during the last year, the buoyancy of the revenue continues
unimpaired.
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as a candidate on the Conservative interest for the borough
of Lisburn.
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in politics includes such names as Chatham and
Holland—and their greater sons,—Burke and Barre
Sheridan and Windham, Camden and Mansfield; and in,
events such momentous epochs as the first Chatham Ad-
ministration, the great constitutional struggle waged round
the ignoble person of John Wilkes, the American war, and
the dawning of the French Revolution ; which in litera-
ture and political science moves round Johnson and Gold-
smith, Adam Smith, Burke, Robertson and Gibbon ; which
saw the old school of fiction die out with Fielding, Richard-
son, and Smollett, the new inaugurated with Sterne, Miss
Burney, and Mrs. Inchbald ; which, in the painter's art,
takes in the last decennium of Hogarth and the dawn of
Lawrence, and covers the whole career of Reynolds, Gain!'
borough, and Wilson ; which, in the art of the stageLl:
glorified by the glius of Garrick and lienler9.:f.
Pritchard, Yates, and Siddons, Kitty Clivelr '''''
by the
Abington ; and, in the literature of the theatre,
and Mrs.
comedies of Goldsmith and Colman, ~.hencl
Cowley.",