The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-21 00:00:00

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LEWES RACES—Txus DAY.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Lady Lavonder
Wanderer
Kieksey Wicksey

Eleven ran.

HANDICAP SELLING STAKES.
Saturnalia
14fiss Frances
Miss Emily..

Nine rau.
JUVENILE STAKES.

Venture f..

Braemar..

Caudjur..

Six ran.

LE IVES HANDICAP.

Target
Epworth
Miss Theo

PLATE OF 40 SOVS.

Eight ran.
lIELTER-SKELTER HANDICAP.

First Emperor
Wanderer
Black Diamond

Five ran.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4 to 1 asst Belladrurc (offered)
4to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort (offered)
4to 1 agst Pretender (offered)
sto 1 agst Drummer (taken to £500)
20 to 1 agst Rupert (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
sto 1 agst iEgean (taken)
5 to 1 agst Paul Jones (taken) •
100 to 8 agst Knight of the Garter (taken)
25 to 1 agst Robespierre (taken)

DERBY.
13 to 1 agst Pretender (taken)
30 to 1 agst Rupert (taken )

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tms DAY.
TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort (taken)
4to 1 agst Pretender (offered-9 to 2 taken )
5 to 1 agst Belladrum (offered-90 to 20 taken
once previously)
500 to 10 agst Martyrdom (taken and offered)
CHESTER CUP.

sto 1 agst Paul Jones (offered-6 to 1 wanted)
sto l ugst ,Egean (offered-6 to 1 wanted)
100 to 12 agst Romping Girl (off-9 to 1 taken)
15 to 1 ag,t Kings Cross (offered)
20 to 1 agst Palmer (offered)
40 to 1 agst Gondolier (offered)
50 to 1 agst Birthday (offered)
90 to 40 agst Paul Jones and .rEdean coupled (t),
DERBY.

10 to 1 agst Ladas (offered)
12 to 1 agst Pretender (taken)
15 to 1 agst Ethus (offered)
1000 to 40 agst Belladrum (taken)
100 G to 20 agst Rupert (offered)
500 to 0 agst .I.3gean (taken)
1000 to 13 agst Alpenstock (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Wild Oats (offered)
1000 to 10 agst King Cophetua (offered)
10 to 1 agst wean 1,2, 3 (taken)

- RACING FIXTURES.
MAY.
Chester 4, 5,6, 7 1 St. Albans 17 18
Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 ! West Drayton .......... 17 18
Winchester ll, 12 1 Bath ' lB,' 19
York 11, 12 Manchester 19, 20, 21
Baldoyle 2ud Spring 11 12 Croydon 19, 21.
Salisbury l3 11 I Harpenden 2l
Doncaster 13, 14 Epsom Summer .. ...25, dm
J 1 f.NE.
Croydon 2,3, 4 Newcastle 22, 23, 24
Newton °, 3, 4 1 Oldham 22
Ascot .....8, 9, 10, 1.1 liibury Club 23
Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Stockbridge 24, 25, 26
Windsor 15, 16 ilheltusford
Hampton l7, 18 Sutton Park
Curragh ........ ....22, 23, 21

J l, LY
Worcester l, 2 , Southampton 13,13
Newmarket July 6, .kc. I Itemling 15 16
Carlislo 6 7 1 lluutiugclon 2l/, 21
l'ontef.-ttet 9, 10 1 Stamford ... -7:, 28
}Loudon ... l2, 13 1 Gocxtwood ..... 27 '2B,2'J, SO
Nottiugham l3, 14 J ,

AUGUST.
Brighton 3, 4 Oxford
Brighton Club 5 York 24, 2.->, 26
Lewes 6, 7 1.1. mouth ............... 46, 27
Egutuu lO, 11 Scarborough 30, 31
Wolverhalr pton lO, 11 I Derby Stuniner .. 31, Sep. 1
Windsor 12, 13 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1
St. Albaus l7, 18 i Canterbury .........31, Sep. 1
Stockton lB, 19, 20 1

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick... -
7, 8
I Hampton 21, 2
Curragli (Royal) 7,8, 9 Western (Ayr)........22,2 8
Abingdon 9, 10 I Hendon
Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Monmouth... 23, 24
Richmond 21, 22 I Newmarket Ist 0ct....28, &c.
Lichfield

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HO USE OF COMMONS-THIS DAY.

The SPEAKER took tho chair at 12 o'clock.

There was a very small attendance at the meeting of the
House, there being only just the number present requisite
to form a " House."

Some petitions were presented for and against the Mar-
riage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill.

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
Mr. J. CHAMBERS moved the second reading of this
bill. Ho stated that thirty-three divisions in the house
had already condemned the law, and five times the house
had sanctioned a bill for the reino :al of the present re-
striction, and on four occasions the house bad sent to
the House of Lords a measure to do away with the re-
striction. No Divine laws prohibited a man marrying the
sister of his deceased wife, but there was a prohibition
against a man taking the sister of his wife during the life-
time of his wife to vex her. In all ages among the Jews
such a marriage was honourable, and was now permitted
by the Jews. With the exception of some of the Baptists
and Wesleyans, marriage with a deceased wife's sister
took place at the present time, and was acknowledged.
Taking the English laws, too, in the days of Henry VIII.,
it was there stated that marriages are to be considered
legal if not prohibited by God's law. In Ireland and
Scotland in 1588 a similar law was agreed to, send
prevails to the present time. God's laws were
an authoritative appeal, and no ideas of men could
make a marriage unholy and illegal, if it were according
to God's word, holy and legal. The learned gentleman
quoted a portion of the words ncod in the rnarriaGe cere-
mony, and contended that he was backed by the laws and
by the doctrines and principles of the Divine Word.
Mr. M. W. P. O'REILLY spoke on the position of
Roman Catholics iu such [marriages, and contended that
the house could not make the bill lawful or unlawful among
the Roman Catholics.

Visc;.uut Btiltir said this :was a question of religious
liberty. If the law were forbidden or allowed by God's
Word, so ought the command to be made legal in the
country.

Sir G. GREY said he was perfectly satisfied there WAS
no prohibition to such a bill in the Divine Word.
Mr. BRIGHT said he felt this was a question of senti-
ment rather than of argument. He considered that the law
as it at present stood was very unjust. The right hon.
gentleman appealed to the house to pass this bill by a
decided majority.
The motion that the bill be read a second time was then
put, and there appeared
For the second reading
Against it
Majority —9O
There was loud cheering
and clapping of Lauds, and
the ladies in their cage tapped their delight on the bars of
their den with their parasols and fans.
The house went into Committee of Supply, and the
house adjourned at five o'clock.

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