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denounced as incestuous the marriages which this Bill
proposed to
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S admitted that there was
no express prohibition in Scripture against these mar-
riages, but the public feeling against them was so s trong
that he could not consent to the second reading of this
measure.

After submitting to many years of anxious expecta-
tion—to the

" Hope deferred, that meketh sick the heart,"
and sustained only during that prolonged and tedious
interval by a confident hope in the wisdom and
liberality of the British Legislature—which would
not, they believed, permit the retention on trivial or
insufficient grounds of an unjust and intolerant law,
restrictive of civil and religious liberty in the tender-
est point, the most sacred relationship of life—they
have witnessed with pain and sorrow the deliberate
rejection by the House of Lords, or rather by the
episcopal members of that House, the Bishops of the
Church by law established, of the just and salutary
measure of relief for erasing that foul blot from the
national statute-book. Prelates mustered thick on
the occasion. The opportunity of inflicting a heavy
blow and great discouragement on the independent
Dissenters of the country—on those who refused to
place their consciences in the hands of any man or
body of men, but who read the Holy Scrip-
tures for themselves, and are their own
interpreters of the sacred truths therein con-
tained--was not to be thrown away. The Right
Rev. Prelates mustered thick on the occasion, and
lawn sleeves were to be seen in greater abundance
than on almost any other occasion, however interest-
ing it might be. They made up for the general
carelessness ; for we regret to say that a culpable in-
difference was manifested by the hereditary legisla-
torsi in permitting a question of suc vital import-
ance to be discussed and disposed 'l n a House
consisting of only sixty-six person arge proportion
of whom were spiritual, and emporal Peers,
The existing excitement respec the Ministerial
crisis possessed greater attractions to their Lordships
than the mere wishes of some m3.riads, aye, millions
of the professors of an unaristocratio creed. Hence
the untoward result, which we sincerely lament, and
which we believe will be deplored by a large propor-
tion of the British people.
The Earl of St. GERMANS brought forward the
measure in a speech of great ability,
in which be distinctly upset the vari-
ous objections that bad been urged against
the Bill. But, unfortunately, the Noble Lord did not
urge the absolute necessity of an immediate concese
sion with sufficient fire and energy. He was weighed
down by the consciousness of defeat. He saw ram-
pant bigotry depicted on the sacerdotal visages by
which he was surrounded, and he omitted to rest his
case on the broad and intelligible grounds of universal
toleration, and the injustice of the Church of Eng-
land binding on the strength of doubtful canons the
consciences of those who were not in communion
with it, and did not recognize its authority or su-
premacy. This was a great omission, for it was de-
sirable that the community in general, and more
especially the electors of England, should understand
the real nature of the vexata questio, and the founda-
tion on which it was based.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

'We have received stich of the Paris journals of
et!.tereikty as have been published, but the Republican
journals did not appear, as on the 24:h, the anniver-
sary of the revolution was observed in the oftoc,s of
the National, the rapublique, the ASiixle, and the
Vole cUftioersel, as a strict holiday.
The Debuts speaks in terms of eulogy of the letter
of the Comte DE CHAMBORD, and reproaches the Le-`
gitimists with their coalition with the Mountain on
the Municipal Bill.
' We find the following in the Pays :—" It has been
said in some political salons that the letter of the Count
DE CBAMBORD was published after an understanding
come to between M. I3EnarEn, M. GUIZOT, and
DUCF4TEL. We have reason to know from authentic
information that this report is without foundation. It
is no more correct than what has been stated relative
to the definitive conclusion of the fusion between the
two branches cf the House of Bourbon. A person of
some consequence, who has recently been in England,
told us yesterday that, unless an immediate and im-
probable change sin uld take place in the opinion of
the Prince!, the sons of Louis Pninirrh, that fusion
had no chance of success with them. As to M.
GUZOTS M. DUCHATEL, and the other members of the
last Cabinet of Louts PntnirrE, they are not opposed
to the fusion, but they do nut think that it can he the
result merely of an understanding between the
Princes; for in that case, in their opinion, it would
only be a theory without importance and without
effect in its application."
M. lltrnt was to give a grand ball last evening,
at which it was said the PRESIDENT of the Republic
would be present.
The anniversary of the revolution of February
passed off very quietly.
Many of the journals are filled with extracts from a
brochure just published by M. EDOUARD LEMOINE,
entitled 'Line Visite au Roi Louis Philippe," in
which he relates the circumstances attending the ab-
dication of LOUIE PHILIPPE as they were told him
by the fallen Monarch himself at Claremont. The fol-
lowing extract from the royal narrative we commend
to the especial notice of the Earl of ABERDEEN and-
his admirers :

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The Bishop of NORWICH opposed, and Lord GAGE
.supported the Bill. _

Lord CAMPBELL said that the parties seeking relief
by this Bill had knowingly and wilfully violated the law.
He was opposed to the measure on principle, and hoped
it would be rejected. _ _ _

The Bishop of LONDON, Lord BROUGHAM, and the
Bishop of OSSOBY likewise spoke against the measure,
and Earl ST. GEasuNs having replied,
Their Lordships divided, when the Bill was rejected
by a majority of 34—fifty Peers voting against the
motion for the second reading, and sixteen for it.
Their Lordships will not resume till Friday.

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" And England does well to bear hatred against me,
for the affair of the Spanish marriages was a national
act; one which, being reprobated in England, ought to
have enjoyed an immense popularity in France, and in-
stead of which was vilified and calumniated by all the
journals of the Opposition. The blind men! They ac-
cused me of having sacrificed the alliance with England
to family interest. The English alliance! So long as I
cultivated itr and God knows with what religious care
I did so—they stigmatised it. They made themselves
the advocates and the patrons of it from the day, when
perceiving that the eutente cordiale, which since the re-
tirement of lord Aberdeen had been anything but cor-
dial, tended to become a treason, I raised my head, and
said to Lord;Palmersion, 'France will not be made a
dupe; she resumes her liberty.' This ri minds me of the
true expression of Prince Metternich, The alliance
between England and France is a useful one. But let
them beware the alliance of the man and the horse is
also useful. 'So much the worse for that one of the two
powers which becomes the horse.' I wished to be the
man."
The Earl of ABERDEEN was well pleased to be,
not the horse, but a meaner beast of burden.
The Roust, was not wall attended, and the price
of public securities again declined. The Five per Cents.
opened at 96!". 75c., and closed at 96f. 45c.; the Three
per Cents. closed at 57f. 85c.; the New Loan at 96f.
35c.; Orleansßailroad Shares, 88V.; Rouen, 6511. 25c.;
Great Northern, 475 f.; Avignon, 192 f. 50t!.; Vierzon,
412 f. 50c.; 851e,160'.; Paris and Strasburg, 367 f. 50c.;
Tours and Naates, 255 f..

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Even as regarded the Established Church, there
was no sufficient ground for interference with
its members. The various prelates who spoke
on the question exhibited a singular contrariety
of opinions. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the
Bishops of EXETER, ST. DAVID'S, NORWICH, LONDON,
and OSSORY, argued the case on the most opposite and
conflicting reasons. Some still maintained the almost
abandoned topic of "Divine prohibition," and justified
their support of the iniquitous enactment sought to
be repealed on the laws enunciated in the 18th
chapter of Leviticus. 'Why, if ever there was a dis-
tinct and unequivocal authority for such connexions,
it is to be found in the 18th verse of that chapter,
so soon as the only obstacle was removed by the
death of the first wife. The reason of the restriction
(at a time when polygamy was sanctioned) was that
the first wife might not be " vexed." The de-
scendants of the injured LEMS, remembering the
sufferings of their ancestress, and the natural
jealousy which she entertained of her more fortunate
sister, and the favouritism exhibited towards the
children of the beloved wife, might be well inolined
to prevent the possibility of similar grievances.
But cessat ratio, cessat lex. No mischief
could occur when death bad removed the
only person that could by any possibility be in-
jured. The Primate argued not from the 18th
but from the 16th verse, which forbids a man " to
approach his brother's wife," and, therefore,
says, between the sister of the wife and
the brother of the husband the analogy was
so clear and plain, that what was forbid-
den in the one case must clearly be forbidden in the
other—no possible reason could ba assigned why
the brother should not marry the brother's widow,
which did not equally forbid the sister from allying
with the sister's widower. Now, without admitting
the analogy, or parity of reason, which, on the contrary,
we distinctly contest, we ask the Most Rev. Prelate
did he forget the 25th chapter of Deuteronomy, v.
5, which commended such marriages in the event of
there being no issue of the first, and
subjected the brother who refused to a
degradation in the face of the assembled congregation ?
Would the DEITY distinctly direct that which (crede
the Bishop of EXETER) is incestuous and immoral ?
The Bishops of Sr. Davin's and NORWICH, how-
ever, did not consider it opposed to Scriptural
precepts, and the latter Prelate might even have sup-
ported the measure if the Noble Earl who intro-
duced the Bill had placed it on the broad principle
of not interfering with the religion of the Jewish
people, or if he had claimed a similar exemption
for any other body of religionists. The Bishop of
LONDON doubted, while the Bishop of Ossoar gave
his vote solely on the social aspect of the ques-
tion. When learned doctors thus diffsred,
why should the members of their own
Church be interdicted Irons judging for themselves,
and a fortiori, why should Dissenters be in any de-
gree bound by opinions with which they have little
in common ?

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The question is as we have repeatedly asserted,
eminently one of civil and religions liberty, and
although it has sustained a temporary defeat
it must ultimately triumph. We trust every Dissent-
ing elector throughout the kingdom will test the
opinions of every candidate for his vote on, this im-
portant topic, and support no person, however
eligible in other respects, who will not pledge him-
self to repeal the unjust and impolitic prohibition.

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IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MEETING OP THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—At twelve o'clock to-
day the Roman Catholic Prelates assembled at the Pres-
bytery, in Marlborough-street, under the presidency of
Primate Cullea, for the purpose of considering the course
to be taken in relation to the new " penal enactment."
Twenty-one out of twenty-eight Bishops were present.
The Evening Freeman gives the following resvind of
the Bishops' deliberations:—

Vale of ISeath .. • •
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Waterford, Wex., Wick.

and I)ublin .. ..
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Windsor, Staines, and S.

" Most' perfect unanimity of sentiment prevailed.
After sitting in deliberation for some hours, their
Lordships agreed to the draft of certain documents
which will be brought before them in a more perfect
shape to-morrow. The documents referred to, when
published, as they will be presently, will diffuse conso-
lation and impart the utmost confidence to the Catholic
people of Ireland, who will see in the union and promise
of their Bishops the strongest pledge for the united and
courageous action of the people in this crisis, when reli•
gious liberty must be forfeited or else wcn for ever.
The document will consist of an address to the Queen,
another to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and a peti-
tion to Parliament."— Times.

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WALBROOK.—Mr. Alderman Wire held his first
wardrnote yesterday, at the School-rooms, Oxford-court, for
the election of a successor to himself in the Court of Com-
mon Council. Two candidates, Mr. Robert Le Blond and
Mr. .I.urrell, were proposed; the latter gentleman carried
the show of bands, and the election was fixed for this day.
TEE EnorosED House-Tax.—Yesterday evening
a numerously attended meeting of the inhabitants of St.
Andrew, Holborn, and St. George's, Middlesex, was held at
the hall of the Workhouse, Gray's Inn-lane, for the purpose
of protecting against the imposition of a house-tax, and of
urging upon ber Majesty's Government the necessity of a
reduction in the public expenditure, with the view of allevia-
ting those burdens which pressed most heavily on the
working classes. Mr. Hopwood was called to the chair, and
resolutions in accordance with the objects of the meeting
were unanimously adopted.

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A Court of Sewers for the City of London was
held yesterday at Guildhall, at which it was agreed that the
whole of Lombard-street should be. paved with wood. A
proposal for the removal of a wail, in order to afford better
ventilation to Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, was ordered to be
referred to the General Purposes Committee.

Sir W. Owen Barlow, Bart., was seized with
sudden illness at the Reform Club, on Monday evening,
after dinner, and was conveyed borne to his chambers in the
Temple, where he died early yesterday morning. Hs was in
his 79th year, and has left a large fortune, which is entailed.
ills executor is Mr. Justice Williams.

The Duke of Newcastle has returned to. Clumber
Park, Notts, from town. His Grace is expected to return
to Newcastle-house, Portman-square, early in the ensuing
week.

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1851.

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