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her favour, He did not rest on his own opinion on this his noble and learned friend that the question was one I friends by means of their political opponents. That cer- that question. Their law officers, he observed, profess. Sporting Intelligence. Co antr Markets.
IMPERIAL PARLIADIEIizr.. point. Lord Thurlow stated that their lordships passed for a select committee. .tainly was not ttie most pleasant poSition in which a sing a desire to cleanse what was ealled "an Aueean es.
..,p divorce bids in a variety of cases-that they were go• Lord REDESDA.LE said that the common law of Whig Minister could be placed. Then there were other stable," had endeavoured to earn a little popularity by BAT
LIVERPOOL-MAY 20.
verned in their judgment by the circumstances of each England recognised no divorce a vinculo, and that this considerations which made it still more unpleasant to throwing bills upon the table, and permiting them to be TUesDAY.
HOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTERDAY). •a AND SOMERSET' COUNTY RACES.
particular case-that he did not know how it oould be divorce was always effected by a special law. No de- them. He found from an analysis before him that, al- hustled end jostled without any rations., hope of passing The Lansdowne Sake: (eletelieap) of 5 sow( eacb, with
deTrahteeredewmaLadffaoirr
consumption, at
40 added ; certain winners extra. One mile. Seven- .
The LORD Cwatecnown book his seat on the woolsack otherwise, because with respect is divorce oases there mand had been made for a divorce a vinculo by the though the majority of hon. members in that house op- them. With respect to the motion, he objected to the
being ld per bushel decline from
teen Babe.
at five- o'clock. was no rule to limit discussion or to contract the limit people of this country, and he could nOt conceive, there- posed to the ballot was• considerable, yet that the num- principle of the bill, and hoped he was not to infer that
also moved off steadily, good American and Spanish retied r
NEW PEER. and discretion of their lordships. It might be said that fore, the need of the bill. It had been laid down by the ber of the electors by whom they were returned was the Government were prepared to adopt so left-handed Mr. Adkine'e Curious, 3 yrs, 6st Blb (Fordham) 1 ing about 6,1 per barrel sod sack. Indian corn a good& rj,
-tadhtaiYsaiadoattyWtaliFlidntiagwyh'asts.ipaplmooeue: ":
f_i, •
The Earl KEN MARE to"k the oaths and his seat the case to which Lord Thurlow referred was a case of highest authorities that the happiness of the married ridiculously small in comparison with the rest. Added a mariner of initiating ecclesiastical reforms.
M. Barnard's Sirocco, 3 ere. 6st Sib
as a Baron of the United Kingdom. incest, but Lord Tburlow stated that he meant his ob- state was promoted by the immobility of the marriage to this, that the majority of the non-electors in the coon. Lord PALMERS CON thought that what bad been Mr. T. Elughee's Romeo, 6 yrs; Bst 3ib... (D. Hughes) 2
pziansgesenap supported erda
plat tcetar aetseisn.
faEireydreitmi aannabearfsalrlayththere
geausoitaer.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented several petitionenray. sensations to extend to Lord Audley's case, which was law, and he agreed with that doctrine. He objected to try were decidedly in its favour, and continually ex- said by the Solicitor-General accounted for the failure of
tions.
ing for an ituprovement in the parochial school ,system not a divorce case. But if they passed this bill and the bill &so because it did not go fare iough, and because pressed themselves unwilling to accept any measure for the measures referred to, it beino the earnest wieh of a:stoi lul :vt 5 all' set;
Helene,
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of Scotland. " saa • 'd that divorce could only be granted under particular its operation was to be Halite Ito only a few cases. °ace the extension of the suffrage without the ballot. No ra- the Government, h 3 observed, to deal with this question,
IPSWICH-MAY 20.
THIRD READINGS. • circumstances, their ' lordships could not go into the principle of divorce a vinculo was admitted, it would Wane' man could arrive at any other conclusion, than and to push forward the measures as far as the other Betting-2 to 1 asst Curious, 3to 1 agst Van Eyck,
Our market is but moderately supplied. with wheat,
On the motion of Lord REDESDA.LE the following other circumstances, and would have • no discree be demanded on every occadon, as it was in Continental that if it were put to the ceuntry generally, the !neje- business would permit. As to the motion, he was pre-
Undoubted' there pp I to their countries. The consequence would be that the eanctity sit in its favour would be enormous. They had in that pared to vete for the introduction- of the bill, resrving tween the second and third.
7to 1 agst Romeo. Won by a length ; ten lengths be-
•which meets a slow sale ; the finest samples of white fetott
bills were severally read a third time and passed :-full rates, but other sorts are rather easier to buy. Beans •
tolhips, but theirY lordshi 7a p wouldn tit- cal
by of the marriage tie would become degraded, and a most house about 244 gentlemen who bad recorded their to the Government the discretion of judging of the mea- 3-yr-olds ; colts, Brt 10ib ; Miles and geldings, Set
The Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each with 50 added for.
Wainman's Estate, East Somerset Railway, and Lon-are somewhat sought after. Peas remain as before.
the vi Of the court below; in the report to which serious injury would be done to the morale of the 001 i- votes in favour of this principle ; they had at their back env, when it was seen, without pledging himself to any- 7th ; certain anowasices ; the ermine' to save hie stake.
don, Tilbury, and Southend Railway (Increase of Cap i- his a • One mile and a half. 41 subs. PER, qUARTER. PER QUARTER
t,al). noble and learned friend had referred, there was a try. The privilege of divorce was originally a job, as the flower of the electoral body, and tbey had the feeling thing further.
Wheat red (01d).., 62s to 68s Barley, grinding 36s to 40e
clause to the effect that there was nothing to prevent the regarded the higher classes ; and now the bill souett to of the people with them. To such a body, then, he would Aker some remarks by Mr. MALINS, Mr. E. Parris Steeds, Bst 10Ib (Wells) 1
THE MARITIME LAWS. woman, if the bill passed, from applying for a particular extend the result of that jobbery to all classes for the say nothing was impossible. How few years had elapsed Lord J. RUSSELL impressed upon the house the Mr. %Yeller's King C ib, 84 71b (Fiatmane 2 Ditto (new) -s to --s Beans - -42 e to 44
Ditto, white 7OB to 746 Peas
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said his attention
Act of Parliament to dissolve the marriage. They were sake of consistency, though its extension was nut de- since the attempt which was made to abolish the corn very great diffieulty of passing bills of this nature, Mr. J. M. Stanley's Porto Rico, Bst lOile...(Ashruall) 3 Ditto (old)
had. been called to the subject of our maritime laws,
asked to pass a bill which would enable the husband to mauded. Great authorities had been quoted in favour laws was termed by the First Minister of the Crown-a and the necessity of some alteration of the mode of Furiolo and curt by The Libel or Don JIM, out of Barley, malting ... 40s to 441 Flour, per sack
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which had been referred to in the declaration made at
prosecute a divorce on easy terms, and they were leaving of the bill ;nut nothing had been said of the highest an. Whig Minister-madness. How longago was itsince they transacting public business in the Legislature. He did Balene, also ran. ATI:4MM FOR VIE WEEK =DINO Max 17, 1856.
the recent conference held at Paris. It appeared to him
the law juet as it was with. all its hardships on the wife thority of al. The utmost that could be got in the Bible followed into the lobby aP. Villiers and a select body of not object to the introduction of the bill, though it did Betting.-2 to 1 agst Porto Rico, 3to 1 each against Wheat
that the language used on that occaeion left the ques-Stork and Furiosn. Won cleverly by three quarters of - s Od
separated from her husband, with probably no means, was separation for adultery; and he (Isere Rede,eale) gentlemen, whom sensible Whigs and sagacious Tories not appear to him, be said, to afford a very complete
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tion in a very vague and unsatisfactory state. It was
and, therefore, no possibility of redress. It hal been said could never come to the cenclusion that it sanctitieo regarded as a select body of lunatic, and even the coun• remedy. a length. . Peas - „ -s ea •
highly desirable that the true meaning and intention of
that adultery on the part of the woman was more to be divorce a vinculo• He was, linefeeer, of opinion that try gentlemen 9,4 tlieY counted them at the lobby-door Mr. Weersow and Mr. Wicrytam having trade some
Tire Bwrinial Stakes of 10 (rove each, with 50 added, for Barley ......
the expression used should be clearly uneerstood. With Beans - SI -s Qa -•
condemned, because it might be the means of introducing greater fiteili•les than now existed shoold be given for looked as if they were much afraid they would bite remarks upon the general subject of the reform of the
two-yr-olde ; erns, Set 1016 ; fiiiiee and geldings, Bat
a view of effecting that object, it was his intention to lay a divorce a MenBC6 et thero, which afforded pri- them ? (Laughter.) All that had passed away, and what ecclesiastioal jurisdiction, and Mr. J. PEtiotowoßn a 7il, ; csr Ain alto wancee ; the second to save his stake. .-......-.
spurious Issue into the family. Theauthority of Dr. Jehn- obtaining
upon the table some resolutions upon the subject he in-
son had been referred to as a great moralist en this qua*• vilege and protection to the woman. He thought the had tees in its place ? Wnv, like a dissolving view, there brief reply, leave was given to bring in the bill.
T.Y.C., half a, mile. 37 Rube. , HULL--MAY 20.
tendedto
be Rethought it desirable that the purport
tion, but unfortunately the commissioners had only cited . bill ought to be referred to a select committee. appeared that celebrated, race between two celebrated PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. hlr. E. Peres La,urbourn. 84 1011) • (Wells) 1 Our farmers brought a small supply of, wheat to-daps , .
of these resolutions be clearly understood before his noble Ttre Earl of ABERDEEN said the only objection he stetesmen, Sir R. Peel and L ,rd J. Ruessll, to see who Mr. CO WPER, in moving for leave to introduce a Dok- of Beautort'a Thu Vigil, Sat 71b (A. Day) 2 which met a dull ado at is to 2s below last Tuesday'' cur-
friend (Lord Colchester) brought forward his motion on a small part of the doctrine laid down in the' converea-
tion alluded to: He would supply the ornisaon, and felt to a select committee was that it might lead in prat- should be first in at the death of the corn laws. Now he bill to amend the Public Health Act, stated that the Lrd J. Scott's Cantrip, Set 711 (Flattnar) 3 rencies ; the report from Marl; -lane disappoints the trade;
the subject, which stood on the paper for Thursday next,
would tell their lordships what Dr. Johnson had said in tics to the longer continuance of the present unreason- „owl any hon. gentleman in that bonne whether he bee measure wan rendered necessar in order to correct the The tollowi eal wr ran :-The Avenger, Deices' and
Y 1 6 •s Foreign wheat unaltered in value, but rather slow. Bsr-
ley dull and lower. Oats and 'beans without change. Lind
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. order that they might judge how far they would wan able and unjust system, and retard the remedy which sieved that that race would have been run if the people, defects] and ambiguities of the said law. For wont of filly by Pyrrha,. the Finn, out of lone.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read- for the great moralist to be their snide and master shoull be applied to it. He believed the Scotch law in booted and spurred, had not mounted on their shoulders
the necessary powers the objects of that law could not Beteitig. -2 tr'l on Lernbourn, 4to 1 eget Vigil, 10 seed firm -a good-demand for cakes. Bones dull.
ing of this bill, and shortly stated the marriage law as it on a subject of this description. Dr. Johnson said that that respect was founded on wisdom and justice. He and urged them on ? All he could Say was that he hoped 're properly carried out. With a view to the improve- to 1 aget any other (offered). Won in rocanter by two . B B I • B. . '
Wheat, English, red 64 to 68 Peas, grey and black ,-- to •-•'.....
existed at a very remote period down to the present between a men and his wife the husband's infidelity did not deny that the ease of a Young duke being en- the people, assisted by some able groom•and there was
of meat of the sanitary condition of towns, his bill NEE to lengths ; a length between the second and third. ' Ditto white 7O to 72 Linseed Black Sea 50 to Ns.
time, as well as the practice of the Eitablished ChurchTbe Somereetshire Stakes of 25 sous each, 15 ft, and 5 Dantzic and Koni s- Ditto Peacrsburgh ...... -‘l,O --"" was nothing-that a wise woman did not trouble herself trapped was perfectly possible ; but how 'many innocent one in Richard Cobden-would mount the shoulders
and the Church of R one in respect to divorce. The women were entrapped by young dukes ? He his noble friend on this occasion, and if they did, with give power for the effectual cleansing of pavenaente, and
with the infidelity of her husband -that the difference young the removal of such refuse and filth ns might be accu- only if declared, &c., with 100 added ; the second to berg g 7O to 72 Ditto Rigaand Arch-
law upon the subject was in a very unsatisfactory state, between the adultery of the husband and that of the wife thought that a proedee followed by cohabitation ought all due respect to hi i noble friend, that they would not ululated at the rear of houses. It would also empower receive 50 Noes, and the third to sate his stakes ; her- Pomeranianandllam- angel
and it ought to be remedied. A commission sat a, few was, that the adultedy of the wife might impose a bastard to constitute marriage. Ae he the Earl of Aberdeen) forget the old age, " Spare the rod and you will spoil
the authorities to establish a system of drains and lain winners extra. Two miles and a distance. 75 burgh
years:ago, at which the Lord Chief Justice was at the issue on the husband-that the man, no doubt, was cri believed wemen were infinitely more virtuous than men, the child." (Laughter) Such was the scarcity of argil- sewers, to be carried out at a certain distance from the subs, 60 of whom pay 5 soya each. Danish,Holstein, and Memel ......... ...... 38 to 4t
head, •and it was on the recommendation of that cum- he believed that for one young man entrapped by vicious rnent, and Ed _threadbare had the subject been worn, thats 7 to 60S . Per Ten.
4minal in the sight of Clod, but that he did not do his wifehouses, also out ails and r eservoirs into which the refuse Sir J. B. IVlill's Cerra, 3 yea, Est (Salter) 1 Friesland
naittee that the present bill was founded. In any material ire' if he did not' insult her with open women there were 100 innocent young women entrapped there was no puny whipster of an editor publishing an e.r (sewage could be carried. It would also provide for Mr. Moseley's Alonz i, aged, B.t 7th
3rlS4o' 64 511
NapoleECWonnnecilll)'l. Ditto Friesland
2 Russian and Odessa 5824
ttoo
26°711-Dint ts o• tic I. i'eftfpcirl)ri ly..arath7loa/umOtbeps otts°llfrf 9+ 0,
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the present bill he proposed that instead of adultery, and that she ought not greatly to resent his by designing young men. - obscure paper in an Irish hog, a Scotch moor, a Welsh the sewage bei ,g applied to the purposes of manure
those, various and costly proceedings which were conduct. That war, the great moralist's doctrine. (Hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, under the circurn- mountain, or an English plain, who was not on this ques- NlFibSetarfokielyo',:iTngopeayis!
25 to 27t1apeseed.. ... 0010 s to 00( 0s
necessary under the present law • that a competent An observation on this passage by another morali.t de- stances, would no. object to a select committee. It was tion perfectly able to master the subject. fl e would now where practiceble. The bill would also extend the
power of rsisieg money for the erection of public works. Mishap and Intimidation.
court should at once be constituted, which would have served attention. It wee to the effect that the manner v. mistake to suppose that the wife had no remedy by the proceed to grapple with the sarieue areuments which he
Bet ting -7 to 4 agst Cerva, 7to 2 agst Poodle 4to Oprattaii.ttjf D;usai.ntliselisl.s..thhiing
full jurisdiction to iutweire into the matrimonial cases ~ which
in the earlier years of Johnson was passed hen bill. She would have the same remedy fur obtaining a had seen recorded. It was not his fault that people o,7elrfsoro t3trieeaT repayment Li?: t::::::,
. est &freeze, 10 to 1 agst any other (offered). Won by Ditto grinding
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brought before it, and if the charge of infidelity was given to his demeanour, and even to his moral character, divorce a Imam et thoro as EIO,V, and the husband, in- brought forward arguments which had been killed a cir )(irate towns, but. only to those towns where there
ivntrelvt(lat4:
three len ths • bad third. Beans
33,81 tot 3404Dnairtte:,:ttgilaiinsh -s to ---0
proved to grant a divorce. Ho proposed that some pezuliarities appalling to the civilised twinge who si,ea,d of cooling to the House of Lords, wculd have to dozen times over. No doubt they would be told that itbill.
The !ltiiie' Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added, for 35 to 4o Bones
this court should supersede the necessity of Were the companions' of his old age. Sach wa+ the go te the court, . way ce warily, that it war tin•Erieli.h to vote for mom- Wriaa!n
en om
crieupireedsebnytamti voevinggovroerrnineitevneto Tipsbrin
gh
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nu .thgeer
three-yr-olds an.l upwards ; optional selling allowances,
• • Peas white and yeL 35 to 38 Flour, per brl. 3ss. Cs.
Ditto, foreign
actions fur vim. ' con., which he always con- observation of Mr. Macaulay on the passage to which Lord LYN 0 EIURST-How unjust that is. bers of Parliament by. way or laden and he saw a right (Hear, hear.) - . &c. ; once round,; four subs. were won by Mr. 0 iverhs
sidered of a' Very revolting nature. He did not propose he had referred. It bid been said that if the The LOitll CHANCELLOR would, however, expect bon, gentleman on the otpesite ' side who used to be Leave WA,. then given to bring in the bill. Ethelbald, 4 wre, Tat Ufa (56/,), Prior, beating Sextua, ' DUBLIN, MAY 20. •
to abolish cinch actions if the parties desired to have re- right -of bringing actions of divorce for adultery• that his ureblearid dearer() friend would be prepared to very fond of that argument. (Sir J. Graham bowed to
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL. Tower, and Jeu d'Eeprit. A small supply, little doing, and prices steady at forma
course to them ; bat they shout' not be a necessary pre-tate those cafes to which he wished the. remedy to he the hen. gentleman.) He would ray it atipersred to him quotations, except for Indian corn, which was fully lepot
were extended, the courts would be choked with
liminary proceeding to the obtaining of a divorce. He them ; but he knew the character of the women applied to the committee, though he (tile Lord Cuenca'. a mockery of common eertEe, (I, or filer.) It was plain Mr. A. PELLArr obtained leave to bring a bill to The Members' Plate (Handicap) of 501. ; winners extra,
qr. lower.
further propoeed that the Lord Chttncellor, the Lord ler) expected uo great. good from taut committee. that the army and navy, the nobility aril commonaliy amend the law of imprisonment for debt. Once round, about a mile and a half. White wheat, 3‘ls oa to 42sh red ditto, 35e Od to 39.0 ; .
of this country toe well to suppose that anything but
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and another judge, Tao bill was thou read a second time and ordered to of this country, voted entir sly teet way in their clubs ; DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL. Mr. Smith's Freckle, 4 yrs, 5 w 12th (Elearnden) 1 barley, 14s Od to 19s Od ; oats, lie Od to 14s Od • rapeseees
extreme cases would induce them to resort to such
and the logical consequeece wag, that if
shouhl preside in the court, •and that there should be an be re erred to a stoect committee. Mr. T. Parr's Wantage, 4 yrs, 6et 10;b (Carroll) 2-sedto -s Oil per brl; oatmeal, 14s Orl to 15s Od ; bake? •
actions,. (Hear.) •It had been said by a recent wri:er,
appeal to the House of Lords, as in all other cases, SMOK.E NUISANCE ABATEMENT. and un-Eaglish, they were a pack of cowards. (Renewed bill.
't 'vat 'cc waldif The house went into cdmmittee pro forma on this
Mr. M.elitsh'e Sandboy, 4 'ere, Gat Sib (J. Land) 3 dour. 11. Od to 27a Od per cwt; ludiaucorn, 29s Od to 3110'
that a men, though neglectful of marriage yews might The following also ran :-01,1 Ro eeley and Champagne. per! 80 lbs.,
This court is not to try cases at the instance of the be a kind husband arid father • but if tay added' to the Tne &ticket Nuisauee Abatement (Metropolis Act) laughter.) Let them answer ;or that. It was said The other orders of the day haring been disposed of,
wife, and the law would, therefore, remain precisely in Aesendinent Bill was committed, and ordered to be re- that electors held the franchiee in trust for the the house adjourned at a quarter past eight o'clock. Won by a leogth and a half ; bad third ; the other _______
woman love for her lAteband and children, theCORK-MAY 20.
the same state as it was at present. It had been serg- obvious interest she would have to remain in•her home, I ported. non-electors, and that the trust meet be exwcised openly. ei.,---- de...
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gested that the bill should be extended to Ireland. To and to avoid exposure, they might be Sure thatlew • wo. PROCE OUR c BEFORE JUSTICES (SCOTLAND). But that argument had been dealt with and destroyed by —. White wheat, 39s ; red, -s to -s Od ; barley, 170 6d to
such a course he should not object, provided it was the Tee Prece, ii. e before Justices (Seotlaud) Bill went Mr. Grote and Sir W Moletworth. Even ,admitting the PARLIA MENr A RY DIVISION. BETTING ON rum COURSE. --3 Od ; oats, 13s to 15s. Od.
men would he disposed to avail themselves of. the remedy- -
opinion of a majority of the house. through ceieruittee. . franchise to he a truet, what was the defieition of it die- AN>
THE DERBY. ..
of the divorce. He was satisfied that the more their
BANKERS COMPOSITION- .HOUSE OF CONINIONS.-MAY 20. 11 to 4 agst Wentworth SBABORNB Lif A ILS.
Lord LYNDHURST had thought it his duty to con- lordships r-flected upon the•mattee the more they would ' i charge ? If the elector voted for the man of h;s cheice
sider. with much attention the bill of his noble and find that married women, except in extreme case, wou'd The Bankers' Compeeition Bill also went through uniefluenced by aordirl motives surety he diacbarged his THE BALLOT. 11 to 2 seat Faze 'lett° (taken) gs signifies that Die malts are sent from the General Poet-oal°
learned friend, but notwithstanding the respect he enter- not avail themselcer of this remedy. There ought to be committee. trust. But open vet ng by no means 'showed whetio r Motion made and question put, "That leave be given to 12 to 1 agst Artillery (taken) • y the rfight-and Mby the moraine-despatch.)
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tamed for him he must say that he thought the meaeure no distinction between the adultery of the hueband and The house then adjourned at a quarter before eight this were so er out. who vote was open and the motive bring in a Bill to protect the Electors of Great Britain
was secret ; and open voting,. so .far 'rom promoting the snit Ireland b taking the Votes by way of Ballot. " 14 to 1 agst Fly-by Night
Day wan' male -F From when 100,
ought not in its present shape to pass into a law. So that of the wife. He would' read a passage from the o'clock. 15 to 1 agst Coroner hesken freely)
cormormity. in General Post- Port due 11 I
far from rendering the situation of the wife better, it commission on which so much reliance had been placed, due diecharge of trust, led rather to its breach. Tee pre-16 to 1 :eget Vandermulin (Offered) Office, Leaden.* Dispatched. ea ;ea a
woula render it much worse than it was at present. to prove that all the great authorities were net against his HOUSE OF COMMONS.-crEsTERDAY.) Yelling rule of bribery was that the money should not be The House divided;
41.eyyEese_111111: Noes 151.
Freestun, Colonel Moffat, G. 16 to 1 ag-t Prince (offered) ' _.........___ — _----- ----- ---"'
Cansidering, therefore, the bill. the ieteresting na.ure of view of the gnestion. In the report of the case rif. the paid before the vote was given. Take away the know- 41'i-4,1r...i11,: Gib 'on, M. Mon blintz. G. 50 to 1 west Berbarinai colt (taken) ,tmericatoyrim.pac.,.,.: Every Friday •••• Liverpool ... May 21
its subject, and the extensive application it would have, Duke of Norfolk, Bishop Cozstis, in his jadgment, arid The SPEAKER took the chair at 5 minute( to 4 o'clock. ledge of the vote and you upset the system of bribery, e leock, T. Glyn, G. Murrough. J. P. 1000 to 15 agst Astrologus (taken freely) emerice. tee United ia....
packet) ..........a •••• ••• ••• • • Liverpool ...
ho thought, notwithstanding the inquiries that had "the bond of marriage is a conjugal union made between 1 NEW MEMBER. • for the briber could have no confidence in the bribed. Atherton, W. Ooderich, Viscount Norreys, Sir D. 1000 to 10 eget Pretty Boy (taken)
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taken place, that the whole matter ought to be re- a man and his wife that each of them will live. to- Mr. HUGHES, Q C., took the oaths and his seat for Bribery, however, was the least part of the evil. Intimi- littl,lhttl• W. . Gower, F.
Greene, John North, F.
O'Brien, J. 1000 to 5 agst The British Lion (offered) packet) - ...... on '• a.• • • , Smith/motet, ..
ferred to a select committee. He was confirmed in this gather according to God's holy ordinance, noth withstand- Longford, in the room of Mr. R. M. Fox, deceased. dation was the monster evil, and open voting was its Berkeley, Grenfell, Charles O'Connell, D. -- Australia (via South-
•••••••••• • - Southampton
opinion from what he had heard stated by a minister of mg poverty, or infirmity, or such other thing's a 3 may life and its support. He would now call the attention Bethel!, sir R. Hadfield, George Olivvra, B. DERBY AND OAKS. -YOUATT WM. GRAY, after a close hilhomPj•°.tinahhtt-t-e„,e3)
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the Crown, a gentleman of great learning and cemmands ha en during their lives. But the promise does net ex- BILLS READ A THIRD TIME, of the house to the state of the ballot in America, It had
Elgin and L resietnouth Harbour Improvement •; been said that It was not used fer secrecy, but merely for Billid.!gdistlliri,.Col. R. M. Hall, Sir Benjamin Otway, A. search, has discovered the right "Pea " for the Derby. Imo (via cape or dove
ing talents. A few months after the bill of 1854 was tend to tolerating adultery, which, according to God's Hankey, T. Pechell, sir G.
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Black, Adam Nestle. Alex. Pall .tt, A. The most experienced sporting men have been puzzled Rope) ............n
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withdrawn, the learned individual to whom he referred ordinance, dissolves the marriage. By adultery the very Ku tresborough and Green Hemmerton Road ; and couvenieuce. This was a mistake. The ballot arose in Blake, M. J. nestle, A rebel. Phi limore, J. G. •by the tricks played on the Derby. Two of the most
Kbaresberoagh aid Palely Bridge Road. Pukington, J.
stated, in ae place pretty well known, hie opinion on the essence of the contract is directly violated, but the con- that country, like the game laws, from necessity. As Bouverie, Hon. E. P. ITeadlam, T. talented " playmen "on the turf have been employed to Aderiancloa.......„ ~ jo 4th & 20th of mon,. Southampton.
subject, and his eithere and earnest hope that whey tract ceasin the bond or oblieatien depending unon it The tollowirig bills were considered and ordered to be p roulation increased intimidation arose, and took its Brockiehurst, J. Heywood, J.
read a third thee on a future, day :-,-Caliie Valley and stand heard the voting_ urns. In those states in which Brotherton, O.E.
Meanie, U.
work the oracle, and have succeeded'. Well, I have dire aahamas ... ~.......:
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another bill was brought in, due care and attention (that ie, thegnuptial ties) ceases also. It is alainst all Halstead Railway; Cork Bridges, Waterworks, See ; the ballot was enforced the evil had been suppressed. Butler, C. S. Hors:nau, E, Roebuck, covered the move ; nothing but accident can prevent my lelnddln ••••••• •• •• eh.
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. would be paid to the woman and to the cruelty and reason that all matrimonial duties ehould be for ever Hughes, W. Seobell. Capt. patients winning a heavy stake by taking the double iiursen.•iots•wyr.._._......• •• •
hardship to which she was exposed. Supported by such taken away, yet the bond or obligation to those duties Fieetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Real- ala Pierce, of Miseachusette, had written him a letter Bane, G. "LC.
way • Oxford, Wor, :ester and Waive' hata too Railway ( n answer to inquiri:s of his) fully establishing this. Hutt, w. Seymour, W: D. mat. Terms, se. ;to Goodwood, 1/. le. Subscribers ;spent loot
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an opinion, he ventured to suggest that the whole matter should continue." But he had another authority of a are particularly requested to enclose a good supply of Caw.) of Good Rolla ...1•
ought to be referred to a select committee. There were higher character to refer to-a work called the "Reba Ee ' hui of Tin &.\ ' S ock o 11Pci I iv. tenari,,, d'e,a, ; t t n and i d eserouge (Cho hon. gentleman proceeded to read the letter.) Ile Chaplin, W. Ingrain, H.
Johnstone, J. Forn,rville, Sir W.
Stanley, w. directed envelopee. Address, 15, Charing cross. eaee de Werde ....ate Sth of the month aoutharapter
and Brid• e • Yarmouth and Haddiscoe • Chambers, M.
' Keating, FT. Wriekland, -it G. Ceylon (see DOW
many questions of great importance connected with the tnatio Legum Encle-iasticarum," which had been much • e•cv la
g I. had ameher letter to the same effect, from the ex Coffin, W.
R til way ; Baum emouth Improvement and Pier ; Shrews- Lary of ;if stthaeteiahw srscsetitsitileenils„etquinentcheacti,f= --.-.
bill, aad with the relations of husband and wife. The relied thorn by the e'er-remission in the reignets . ward IV., Collier, RP. Keret ive, J. Strati, Hon E , ____. ---..
,fiance_ Isles ~.. , „,t. Mon.,Wed.,ftFrl2 Southampton rtab.S6
orossley, F. •King, L. Sullivan, Ifichael lo 21 *l7th of mont• Southampto.
bury and Hereferd Reilway.
matters of wldch the female had a right to complain composedefhigh ecclesiaetibsancimenibersof both houses, - - • ' Currie, Ralkes Kinnaird, A. Tancred, H. From the London Gazette of Last Night,. ohm-- - •••• •••••••• Once a month....
TdEBI N DS IN THE PA WES . Yds wee a picture of true Eogli,h intimidation. ,The Davie. Sir R. R. F. Langston, J. H. Thornely, T. China .... . 510:2
evere-fir4, as. respected property ; 'secondly, a 3 re- the object Of which commiesien being the reformatinri of r ghaa7aecnilfuo
8,12,18,23,1h28 of n Dover..,.
spected personal protection ; thirdly, as respected actions the ecclesiastical laws. It was the principle of the Peck- ' Mr. CROSS' LEX preserited a petite:re iron a •phew) tyranny of the landocraey in this c. nuts was rivalled in De Vera, S. E. Langton, FL G. Tile, W. —ow—. Constantinople .... . :..
jenstantinople ....... 4th St 20th of mon. Soithoimpto.
Dill wyn, L. L. Lulea W. Villiers, C. - LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Aram 29. ,iont. of F.lurope M ~. a Twice daily .... • • Dover ...... tevieedelle
of trim. con. ; arid fourthly, as regarded actions for di- siastical law, as laid down in articles by the COMEII3- near Halifax, Yorkshire, praying that the military bands America by the tyranny of the mercantile classes. The Duncan, Viscount .
Lee, W. Vivian, H. H.
Vorce. 1t would not require many observations to ex- sioners-that the witi!tery of the husband should be put might play in the perks of tire inerropolie on Sunclaya. Americans, however, had done their best to remedy the Duncan, George M'Cann, J. Walmsley, Sir X. Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a en:Pt (see India)
la 8,1,. Twice daily.. ...., Dover .... dead
plain those four points. With respect to property, he upon the same footing as the adultery of the wile,' and PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. evil, and 1124 put their ehoulders to the wheel to get out Esmonde, .T. Maelliahnn, P. Warner, E. Drawing-Roorn at St. Jamess Palace, on Thursday the rrancE' ••••• • •• -4 7 17, 20 27 fm. So tb,
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Ewart W. Megan, W. Watson, W. 29th May next, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Majesty's •
oreece (see India) ,
was not attempting to interfere with property between that adultery in ei„her case dissolved the marriage. Sir J. WA.L XISLEY postponed the notion of which ,of the moral mire, We country prof: reed to "stick a„,-t: a. Mangles, R. D. Wickham, 11. Birth-day. aroytown ..........W2nd & 17th of mon. Southamott•e
man and wife when living together in harmonious con- Ought thereto be then such a dissimilarity between fags he had givea notice for to-night relative to Perna- in the mud " and waillow -in o irruption. Instead Pereucori, Colonel Karon, a. Wilkinson, W. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear' in Hamourgh .......... /1 'Tuesday & Fridre London...
nection, but wbeh separated in consegnence nt the mire; law in one part of the country and in the other. In the mentary representation and the extension of the frau- of any eiftctive measure there bad been that mast Ferguson, J. Marten, P. Willcox, B. ittyamth hhhh h ti 2nd of the mint' Soutoastpuoi• ,inns t
their Collars at the Drawing-Room on tho 29th of May
conduct of the husband by a sentence of the ecclesiaeti- recent conaceittee witnesses were examined with respect chise till this day month. ridiculous bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention Bill Fitzgerald, J. Massey, iv. TELLERS.
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Bill, Forster, Charles Meagher, T. Berkeley, lion. H. F. neat. Honduras
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cal court. At present the law was that the woman's to the marriage law of Scotland. Was there more 'Men- OFFICERS' HORSES-CRIMEA. which had done all it was intended to do-viz •nothing.
e Fox, W. J. Mall, FL Evans, Sir De Lacy FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 13. hidia (viaßouthampt.}lll 4th 'e 20th of men. Plymeuth .. t & 20 13/
property belonged to the husband. If a legacy were left tiousnees in Scotland where egnality in diverse existed Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the Udder ' The hon, member read a speech of Mr. Tree, at Bath, in NOES-151. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Manley Mita (via Marsomes)sl 9th&lth of month Dover .. ea.
der Secretary for
Lo a wornaa so separated from herhueband, or if she BBC- than in England where the right was col to the hue- War whether it was the intention of her 51 , cubicle he said that he knew of several eases in winch Agnew, Sir A. Gladstone, Capt. J. Newdegate. C. Hopkins as Consnl-Generel in the United Kingdom for lonian tees (see 'Total 72 7 2:7 e
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(needed to personal property, it belonged to her husband, band. . There .wa.s a greater power in Scotland to dire Government, on the return of the B • fetish army from the
hinthY 8 support. re of his hid the "screw put on •them " h
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The husband could seize it, and he generally did seize it. solve marriages, and why give greater facilities in role Crimea, to bring • •
g home at the public cost the regulation upon Mr. Whately, the Tory candidate, said he had Arbuthnott, Gen. U. Grraham, Sir J._ Nisbet, R.
Have, W. G (iv. itt Flom. Sir G. Oakes, J. ST. JAMBS'S PALACE, MAY 14. urmeira
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He hal known cases in which the wife bud never enjoyed part of the kingdom than the other ? The then Lord Ad- number of chargers belonging to officers ; or, •, if the kneven of several of his eupperters who had been treated Raillie, H. . Grosvenor, Earl Ossulston, Lord The Qteeen hits been pleased, on the noraination of the etaeeire ............ ts 234 of month •••• laverPool •..
property se left to her. Jr was a gross inequality, con- vocate rind the Lord Justice of Scotland proved that the buries are not brought home, whether the intend to the
in e cams way at B,e on There exieted a regular Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Guroey, J. H. Palmer. itoundell Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Charles Alexander watts (soe tells)
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saquent upon the present law of divorce, and ought to wife boa equal power in respect to divorce with the liti-,.- make uto all officers tho amount of allowancye t wh. h bend of men who were organised for the purpose of hteringeir F. t Gwyn, Howe! Palmerston, Viscount Lockhart Robertson, Esq , one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps itatta .......
Milford, Sir Henry Patten, Col. Mauritius (ace......`
of Gentlecrian-at-Arnag, vice Grange, retired.
be set right. Again, if n, wife succeeded to real property hand. Tne witnesses were of opinion that no evil would they w,'lld. have been entitled if their torsos had) be: bribery. There was the little town of Wells also. (Hear, h,4,reeriens!,', ,''e:. s • Hall, General John Peel, Gen. t,,f,„,1ti,„ •.........,N 14th of the motor
by devise or inheritance, the husban I, notwithstanding follow from giving wives power of divorcing husbands on lost in her Majesty's service 1" n and laughter.) That town had been the scene of a strik- Beckett, W. Hamilton, Lord Claud Percy, J. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. „Lexie°
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the separation, occupied it during lite. Much worse account of adultery. The evidence of the Scotch law, so Mr. F. PE e.'. le said that no despatches hal been re- ing con est. " When Who? met Whig then came the Bennet, Capt. P. Hamilton, G. A. pion more, R. J. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Ca airy.—Major Thomas Naples . . .......a sthtsth2fithefmon.. Dover ......
than. that, it the wife tried to eke out a sco:uty sub- different to our own, showed that no evil could be anti .a. ceived iroin General Cocirington explaining why he tug of war." (Latvghter.) The hon. member read ex- Bit ea nn
it lantt
Vist.o Hamilton, l ton ,J.
Handc.ick, H. Portal, M.
Pritchard, J. Rawdon Ward to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Phipps, re- New Granada ...... a. ''
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sistence for herself and claildreu by instruction, the paced from allowing wives the power of divoro-a on the is cued the orders referred to. A t,leara li g • tracts from two daily papers, detailing the proceedir.gs- Thgnold, Sir S. liarclurt, Col. Pugh. D signed ; Supernumerary Major the Earl of Shelburne to
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ic coininum- be Major, vice Ward, proinotal ; Lieutenant Thos. Fraser . poni.i.
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hesband could ecias her gains and give them to his ground of adultery of their husbands. lewd Eldon, in cation had been forwards Ito the si
stating that of each p trty at the election referred to. Great complaints Blackburn, r. Hardinge, Hon. C. Repto o, G. '
mistress. Surely some prove ought to be Moffatt 's case, eapressed himself on the point in decided officers' chargers t b brought Crimea,
f t-- ha l been made of the proceedings at the Rochester sect- Illandford, Marquis of Hardy, G. Robertsnn, P. Grove to be Captain, vice Viryndhain. resigned ; Cornet pei,
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. were n e home roe o. cast, .Bramley.lluOre, J. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, Lord J. Edward Peaoh Wm. Miles to be Lieutenant, vice Grove, Pen Nat 1.1.......... :ly private ship... Various port- ,n , ie.
made, in legislating on the law of divorce, to see terms. The application for divorce was by Mrs. Moffat ante also those ho belonging. ton, the hon. member elected for that place declaring geecot.
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such' a geestion right. With the exception of a on the ground of cruelty althadulteey. Lord El•lon aI- Conttneent. that what be had seen practised there had decided him Buren, Sir C. Heard, J. Rust, James Northumberland Infantry Militia-George Dodd, Gent., rummy ...a •• " ''''' 2d* 17th eimontl• Southam...t.
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scanty allowance in the abape of alimony, the per- milted the doctrine of the right of the wife to sea for SARDINIA. . to Y,pte for the ballot. The constituency of Leominster eurrowes, Robert
Cabbell RE. Heathcoate, Sir W. Scott, F.
Henley J. Shirley, H. to be Lieutenant. Veneznele ....„ „ ~ „Bri
Van Diemen'sLAsd(tze,
sofa( property of the wife belonged to the husband, divorce, and supported the eecend reading of the hill on had also petitioned in favour of secret voting. But there ' C. • ' Royal Cermerthen Regiment of Militia-Lieutenant , '
Viscount GOD cTICH asked Oavenclish, C. C. Hoge it, R. Smith, a.tustralia) ......
and he might assign or bequeath it, and leave her and the subject. His noble and learned friend had alts ed ei . the First Lord of the hat also been an election for Midharst-a place which Cae ley, E. S. Horsfall, T. Smith, W. David Edwaril :Tones to be Captain, vice Lewes, resigned; Wee Inuit.. ~ i, lee& I7th ot !loony. igentbamptar 1
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her children destitute. There was no reciprocity or his opinion respecting the practice of that house, and be Treaeury whether he would lay on the table of the Was a mere a,ppurtenaace to the Cowden family. He Chelsea, Viscount IL)tham, Lord Smellett, A. Ensign John Thirlwall to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas,
equality in such a case. It had been eaifl that marriage would refer to his noble and learned friend echo would houee copies of two notes,. dated the 27th of March admitted that the patron had recently exercised good Christy, Samuel Howard. C. St<iffera, A. resigned ; Ensign Lewis Evans to be Lieutenant, vice vitionany or theme dates fall on a Sunday, the mails will •' e ~,,
. cos ington, Sir C. W. Joni Ire, Sir W. Stirling, 'V. i ?etched on the following dar, with the exception of the India 41%,
Jones, promoted ; Charles Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
settlements would prevent such things being done, but explain his own view and reason of than the b•and the 16th of April laetnpresente.l by the • Sardinian taste in the. nomination t h c h. h
o. members .or this borough, cotes. 11 Jolliffe, 11., Strawy, Sir IL onthampton), and the Malta. both of which will be deatiatched ire
g? on su Pct. 'Plenipotentiaries,at the Conferences' Pa • 'Pbirlsvall, promoted ; John Swan, Gent., to be Eosign,
they well knew that settlements were confined to per• With respect to the parties who hal signed the commis- • •at ris, to the for that patron had replaced a most popular member cotvile. C. R. Jonas, Admiral Stewart, Sir M. preceding day.
Ens and French Ministers. . Kell 7, Sir F. Stuart, Captain vice Evans, promoted ; John Hughes, Esq., to be Surgeon, - . •
sons in a certain rank of life, and that nine-tenths of the sion there was one person who had on a previous occa- (Mr. Walp.ole) by another' hon, and learned gentleman C°n°ll3'' T. ii . _
marriages took place without any settlement. Another Bien expressed himself strongly on tsubject. He hoped
be Lord PALMERSTON said there was. no objection well known to literary fa,me (Mr. Warren). (Hear.) He Coot°, Sir C. . Kam J. Sutton J. vice Lawrence, retired.
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her favour. He did not rest on his own opinion on this
point. Lord Thurlow stated that their lordships passed
divorce bids in a variety of cases—that they were go•
verned in their judgment by the circumstances of each
particular case—that he did not know how it oould be
otherwise, because with respect to divorce cases there
was no rule to limit discussion or to contract the limit
and discretion of their lordships. It might be said that
the case to which Lord Thurlow referred was a cam of
incest, but Lord Tburlow stated that he meant his ob-
servations to extend to Lord Audley's case, which was
not a divorce case. But if they passed this bill, and
said that divorce could only be greeted under particular
circumstances; their lordships could not go int,
other circumstances, and would have • no discre-
tion. Undoubtedly there was an appeal to their
lordships, but their lordships would be governed by
the law of the court below. In the report to which
his noble and learned friend had referred, there was a
clause to the effect that there was nothing to prevent the
woman, if the bill passed, from applying for a particular
Act of Parliament to dissolve the marriage. They were
asked to pass a bill which would enable the husband to
prosecute a divorce on easy terms, and they were leaving
the law just as it was with. all its hardships on the wife
separated from her husband, with probably no means,
and, therefore, no possibility of redress. It hal been said
that adultery on the part of the woman was more to be
condemned, because it might be the means of' introducing
spurious Issue into the family. Theauthority of Dr, John-
son had been referred to as a great moralist en this ques-
tion, but unfortunately the commissioners had only cited
a small part of the doctrine laid down in the conversa-
tion alluded to: He would supply the omission, and
would tel! their lordships what Dr. Johnson bad said in
order that they might judge how far they would suf-
fer the great moralist to be their guide and master
on a subject of this description. Dr. Johnson said that
between a man and his wife the husband's infidelity
was nothing—that a wise woman did not trouble herself
with the infidelity of her husband —that the difference
between the adultery of the husband and that of the wife
was, that the adultery of the wife might impose a bastard
issue on the husband—that the man, no doubt, was cri
.ininal in the sight of Clod, but that he did net do his wife
any material injury if he did not insult her aith open
adultery, and that she ought not greatly to resent his
conduct. That was the great moralist's doctrine. (Hear.)
An observation on this passage by another morali•t de-
served attention. It was to the effect that the manner
in which the earlier years of Johnson was passed ha
given to his demeanour, and even to his moral character,
some pezuliarities appalling to the civilised beings who
Were the companions of his old age. Such was the
observation of Mr. Macaulay on the passage to which
be had referred. It had been said that if the
right .of bringing actions of divorce for adultere
were extended, the courts would be choked with
them ; but be knew the character of the women
of this country toe well to suppose that anything but
extreme cases would induce them to resort to such
actions,. (Hear.) •It had been said by a recut wrier,
that a man, though neglectful of marriage yews' might
be a kind husband and father • but if they ad led to the
woman natural love for her I:neband and children, the
obvious interest she would have to remain in her home,
and to avoid exposure, they might be sure thetlew: wo•
men would he disposed to avail themselves of. the remedy
of the divorce. He was satisfied that the more their
lordships r-flected upon the matter the more they would
find that married women, except in extreme case, wou'd
not avail themselcca of this remedy. There ought to be
no distinction between the adults ry of the husband and
that of the wife. He would read a passage from the
commission on which so much reliance had been placed,
to prove that all the great authorities were not against his
view of the question. In the report of the case of the
Duke of Norfolk, Bishop Cozens, in his judgment, a lid
"the bond of marriage is a conjugal union made between
a man and his wife that each of them will live to-
gether according to God's holy ordinance, noth withstand-
ing poverty, or infirmity, or such other things as may
hapeen during their lives. But the promise does net ex-
tend to tolerating adultery, which, according to God's
ordinance, dissolves the marriage. By adultery the very
essence of the contract is directly violated, but the con-
tract ceasing the bond or obligation depending upon it
(that is, the nuptial tie') ceases also. It is against all
reason that all matrimonial duties should be for ever
taken away, yet the bond or obligation to those duties
should continue." But he had another authority of a
higher character to refer to—a work called the " Mot-
matio Leguin Encledasticarum," which bad been much
relied upon by the commission in the reign ot E ward IV.,
composed of high eceissiastfas and members of both houses,
the object of which commission being the refermatairi of
the ecclesiastical laws. It was the principle of the eccle-
siastical law, as laid down in articles by the Commis-
sioners—that the alultery of the husband should be put
upon the same forting as the adultery of the wile,. and
that adultery in ei.ber case dissolved the marriage.
Ought there to be then such a dissimilarity between toe
law in one, part of the country and in the other. In the
recent corneiatee witnesses were examined with respect
to the marriage law of Scotland. Was there more licen-
tiousness in Scotland where equality in diverco existed
than in England where the right was confined to the hus-
band. There wa.aa greater power in Scotland to die
solve marriages, and why give greater facilities in one
part of the kingdom than the other ? The then Lord Ad-
vocate and the. Lord Justice of Scotland proved that the
wife had equal power in respect to divorce with the illl
band. Tne witnesses were of opinion that no evil would
follow from giving wives power of divorcing husbands on
account of adultery. The evidence of the Scotch law, so
different to our own, showed that no evil could be anti •i•
pated from allowing wives the power of divoree on the
ground of adultery of their husbands. Lord Eldon, in
Moffatt's case, expressed himself on the point in decided
terms. The application for divorce was by Mrs. Moffat
on the ground of cruelty alef.adulteey. Lord Li lon a'-
mated the doctrine of the right of the wife to see for
divorce, and supported the second reading of the bill on
the subject. His noble and learned friend had alte ed
his opinion respecting the practice of that house, and be
would refer to his noble and learned friend, who would
explain his own view and reason of change on the subject.
With respect to the parties who hal signed the commis-
sion there was one person who had on a previous occa-
sion expressed himself strongly on the subject. He hoped
he bad now shown that the weight of authority was not
in favour of the hill, but against it, and he hoped, there-
fore, their lordships would refer the bill to a select com-
mittee, and he would cenclude by making his motion in
the terms he had already given.
Lord BROUGHAM amended the motion. Anything
more convincing, luminous, or more worthy of his noble
and learned friend he had never before heard or could
have imagined. The bill in question arose from a report
from a respectable commission ; but as he differed from
some of the conclusions of the report he was of opinion
tho question ought to be dealt with in a larger sense and
on a wider basis. There was only one of two ways open
to deal with the question—either to deal with it in a
larger sense, or to adopt the views of his noble friend
opposite, to give no remedy by divorce at all. The
practice of refusing remedy to one party as a matter of
course, and granting it to another as a matter of eaurse,
appeared to him so contrary to common sense, law, and
humanity, that he thought his noble and learned friend
was justified in taking the stand he had taken on the
present question. One case he recollected—that where
a man had been convicted, and had married another
woman during the lif time of hls wife, the wife was
allowed a divorce. Another case of the grosses; cruelty
and grievous and loathsome misconduct on the part of
the husband he remembered, and that the remedy of a
suit for divoree was nearly refu-ed to the wife ; but it
was considered so cruel not to relax the law that at last
the snit WEV, granted. Unhappily some faets came out
relative to the conduct of the wife, although the loath-
sem& conduct of the husband was proved beyond all
doubt ; and this was wide the ground of refusing the
prayer for a divorce. tie had al ways been of opinion
that the practice ought to be abided by, and that, ex
cept in extreme ca,es, the suit of a wife for divorce ought
not to be permitted. In Scotland it was asserted by the
evidence ef the Lord Advocate that there were many
more divorces by husbands than by wives. This was
not correct; The number in four years eliding 1840 was
20 in each year. In 1841 only 10 divorces were granted.
This tact was material to show, because it proved bow
groundless was the fear that if the law of England as to
divorce was placed on the same footing as the law of
Scotland the- number of divorces would be endless.
Tne return he referred to was not a return for Edinburgh
alone, but for the whole of Scotland. He found that
the proportion of divorces, as far as regarded husband
feed wife, was nearly equal ; for every nine by wives,
there appeared ten applications by husbands. These
circumstances offered the strongest reasons for
going before a committee, in order that all the facts
might be fully inq tired into. There was another
great defect in the measure, by confining as it did the
rem: dy to the hu•beind in cases of desertion. Now he
considered that desertion was even worse than cruelty,
and that the wife ought to have her remedy just the same
as it was propsaed to give the husband. There was a
society established to ascertain the wrongs of women,
and he was overwhelmed with the evidence which bad
been elicited. One case he would mention—a husband
had deserted his wife, and gone to live in a distant c
lony. The wife could not go into any court to ask to be
divorced. It might be said she could come to that house
for relief ; but unless she could bring 6001., and get a
bill passed through that house, she would not have the
shadow of a shade of chance of getting a divorce. This
husband might return a beggar from Australia, and if
his wife bad accumulated property by her induAry, he
had a right to come and sweep the whole of it away. He
would not go further into the gross cruelties and inhu-
manities which the present state of the law afforded im-
punity to. The system in this country was more bar-
taerfnt and inconsistent than in nay other country, and
h)
hoped steps would be taken to reform it effectually.
An action
of trim. con, bad been brought and cornpre-
op place
wasin hneoCaocrits Ist° ry
rn"ed by the defendant's family for 501., in the absence,
of course of the wife. Further proceedings which took
, Court however, showed that not
adultery committed, but that it was I
physically import:le: that it could be committed. In
it)lnietamtienannowfheilrietnteheiopreriirB
iiwoman
,ontia9. 11adTthoatben tinder
doubt
rbtthe
was
an extreme case ; but the general case that trim, . eon.
actions were brought in the absence of the woman, and
that she suffered from the verdict without the power of
'defending herself.' was not an extreme eneingHliesh(dLuokrde
Brougham) would suppose the case of an
of 14 years of age entrapped into a Scotch marriage by
a prostitute of 24. That marriage would carry all his
estates and honours by the Scotch and also by the Eng-
lish law ; and the unhappy young man would have no
possible means of putting an end to it. It was a stare
of the law which did no credit to the country. He
(Lord Erougha,n) considered that the bill left the
worse than it found her tinder the present law, because
the court could not extend the rule as the House of Lords
did ; and therefore, on these grounds, he agreed with

point was, that a. woman separated from her husband by
sentence of the ecclesiastical court, in consequence of

his miscorduct, his adultery, or cruelty, wai almost in
the condition of an outlaw. She could enter into no
contract, not even into a lease for her residence. She

though the majority of hon. members in that house op-
posed to the ballot was considerable, yet that the num-
ber of the electors by whom they were returned was
ridiculously small in comparison with the rest. Added
to this, that the majority of the non-electors in the coml•
try were decidedly in its favour, and continually ex-
pressed themselves unwilling to accept any measure for
the extension of the suffrage without the ballot. No ra-
tional man could arrive at any other conclusion, than
that if it were put to the country generally, the majo-
rity in its favour would be enormous. They had in that
house about 244 gentlemen who bad recorded their
votes in favour of this principle ; they had at their back
the flower of the electoral body, and tbey had the feeling
of the people with them. To such a body, then, he would
say nothing was impossible. How few years bad elapsed
since the attempt which was made to abolish the corn
laws was termed by the First Minister of the Crown—a
Whig Minister—madness. How long ago was itsince they
followed into the lobby C. P. Villiers and a select body of
gentlemen, whom sensible Whigs and sagacious Tories
regarded as a select body of lunatics, and even the coun-
try gentlemen as they counted them at the lobby-door
looked as if they were much afraid they would bite
them ? (Laughter.) All that had passed away, and what
had ti.ey in its place ? Wns, like a dissolving view, there
appeared that celebrated race between two celebrated
statesmen, Sir R. Peel and L Ord J. Ruessll, to see who
I should be first in at the death of the corn laws. Now he
rteked any hon. gentleman in that house whether he ,
be-
lieved that that race would have been run if the people,
booted and spurred, had not mounted on their shoulders
and urged them on ? All he could Say was that he hoped
the people, assisted by some able groom—and there was
one in Richard Cobden—would mount the shoulders of
his noble friend on this occasion, and if they did, with
all due respect to hi. noble friend, that they woual not
forget the old age, " Spare the rod and you will spoil
the child." (Laughter) Such was the scarcity of argu-
ment, and so. hreadbare had the subject been worn, tbat
there wits no puny whipater of an editor publishing an
obscure paper in an Irish bog, a Scotch moor, a Welsh
mountain, or an English plain, who was not on this ques-
tion perfectly able to master the subject. He would now
proceed to grapple with the various arguments which be
had seen recorded. It was not his bolt that' people
brought forward arguments which had been killed a
dozen times over. No doubt they would be told that it
wee e aver ily, that it wee nu-Elle:fish to vote for mem-
bers of Parliament by way of hailot, and hs saw a right
bon. gentleman on the of p isite side who used to he
very fond of that argument. (Sir J. Ordain bowed to
the hon. gentleman.) He would say it a: peered to him
a mockery of common sense. (L tit ;titer.) It was plain
that the army and navy, the nobility and commonall
of this country, voted entir sly thet way in their clubs ;
and the logical consequence was, that if tt was co veiledly
and un-English, they were a pack of cowards. (Renewed
laughter.) Let thorn answer ;or that. It was said
that electors held the franchise in trust for the
noteelectors, and that the trust meet be ex-wcised openly.
But that argument had been dealt with and destroyed by
Mr. Grote and Sir W Mole worth. Even .admitting the
franchise to he a trust, what wale the delieition of it (Hs-
i charge ? If the elector voted for the man of les ch }:ce
uninfluenced by aordirl motives surely he discharged his
trust. But open vet ng by no means 'showed wheth. r
this were so or out. The vote was open and the motive
was secret ; and open voting, so far from promoting the
due discharge of truet, led rather to its breach. Toe pre-
vailing rule of bribery was that the money should not be
paid before the vote was given. Take away the !views
ledge of the vote and you upset the system of bribery,
for the briber could have no confidence in the bribed.
Bribery, however, was the least part of the evil. Intimi-
dation was the monster evil, and open voting was its
life and its support. He would now call the attention
of the house to the state of the ballot in America. It had
been said that it was not used far secrecy, but merely for
convenience. This was a mistake. The ballot arose in
that country, like the game laws, from necessity. As
p ovulation increased intimidation arose, and took its
stand hes:de the voting urns. In those states in which
the ballot was enforced the evil had been suppressed.
Mr. Pierce, of Missachusutts, had written him a letter
( n answer to inquiri ,s of his) fully establishing this.
(rhe hon. gentleman proceeded to read the letter.) He
nad ante her letter to the same effect, from the ex-secre-
tary of ttate fir Maleachussetts. la c !nsequence of those
te mes the law ha,.l enforce I the ballot in that state.
Teis was a picture of true Eeglish intimidation. The
tyranny of the landocraey in this e untry was rivalled in
America by the tyranny of the mercantile classes. The
Atnet leans, homey er, had done their best to remedy the
evil, and bad put their shoulders to the wheel to get oat
of the moral mire. This country preft rred to "stick
' in the mud " and wallow in o irruption. Instead
of any eff'ctive measure there bad' been that most
ridiculous bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention Bill,
which had done all it was intondsd to do—viz., nothing.
The hon. member read a speech of Mr. 'lite, at Bath, in
which he said that he knew of several cases in wbioh
support• as of his feed the "screw put on them ;" where-
upon Mr. Whately, the Tory candidate, said he had
known of several of his supperters who had been treated
in the same way at B ,stun. There existed a regular
bend of men who were organised for the purpose of
bribery. There was the little town of Welts also. (Hear,
and laughter.) That town had been the scene of a strik-
ing con est. "When Whig met Whig then came the
tug of war." (Laughter.) The hon. member read ex-
tracts from two (Lily papers, detailing the proceedir.ga
of each p irty at the election referred to. Great complaints
ha I been male of the proceedings at the Rochester elec-
t on, the hon. member elected for that place declaring
that what be had Seen practised there had decided him
to vote for the ballot. The constituency of Leominster
had also petitioned in favour of secret voting. But there
ba.l also been an election for Midharst—a place which
Was a mere appurtenance to the Cowdery family. He
admitted that the patron had recently exercised good
taste in the nomination of members for this borough,
for that patron had replaced a most popular member
(Mr. Walpole) by another' hon. and learned gentleman
well known to literary fame (Mr. Warren). (Hear.) He
(Ar. Berkeley) was net at war with either of those hen,
and learned gentlemen, hut with the system of open
voting which they upheld. The present hon. and learned
member, when addressing the electors, had had the
hardihood to tell them that their votes were unfettered,
adding that, being their representative, he fe't "a proud
man' and their brother." (A laugh.) Why, to hear
such words any one would think the hon. and learned
member had been reading his own " Ten Thousand a
Year," and had treated the constituency to a chapter of
" 0:ly Gamm in." (Laughter.) Ha (Mr. Berkeley) bad no
desire to exclude the aristocracy from the House of Com-
mons. Whether there were the ballot or not, he should
always like to see such mei. as; Villiers, Stanley, Walpole,
Duncan, and others he could name, in the h else ; hut ha
would take away the power of nomination from a Derby,
a Clarendon, an Egmont, or a Cemperdown. He ap-
pealed for support to the Administrative Reformers, who
would have but little chance of rtucce-s whilst the British
House of Commons was returned by the House of Peers.
Sir DE LACY EVANS seconded the motion ; reed
there were immediate calls fur a division.
The SPEAKER having put the question,
Mr. PEACOCKE, amidst merke of impatience, re-
minded the hon. member for Bristol, that whilst dealing
•copiously in, general allessations against the present elec.
tpral system, he had failed to adduce any individual in-
stances in support of his views. Net a, si gle case of in-
timeletion had been adduced. The hen. member was
bound to show that the ballot would protect the honest
and conscientious voter. He (Mr. PeaCnck) was prepared
to prove that it would not. On the contrary, the only
man whom the system of secret voting would serve was
the liar, the hypocrite, and the knave. S tar from secret
eraine being a boon to the farmer or the Ira lesman, he
believed that, harassed by the spy and the informer, men
would sigh fur a return to open voti g aed an appeal to
the poll-book. It was irepoesible to lo rk to th • fi laity
of the ballot without a fheing of alarm. The hon. mem-
ber said that under a system of secret voting there would
,be corr iption. What, how,tver, had ben moved in
the cese of ihereham in 1781—a borough bought and
sold by a club called the Cho. tian Club, and conducted
on Etrangelical principles? What had subs, guently been
proved in the case of Sudbury and St. Alban 's? The hon.
member (Mr. Peso icke) proceeded to point t nt the es.
moralising effete f secret v ting in Atnexica, and par-
ticularly in New York, and went en to contra d e hat the
change proposed in our; electoral system by tee intro-
duction of the ballot would lead, not only to an organised
system of ce r option, but an organ, ed system of fraud,
(Hear, hear.) Theworking of the system on the large scale
of a general election Might be gat h red from the action
of the ballot in a certain horticultural society in the
north, where, instead of 39 votes being found in the
ballot-box (the proper number), there were 49. (Hear,
hear.) Had we bad any reason to resort to secret
voting, founded upon what heel occurred abroad ? There
was a general feeling in France that the election of
Louis Napoleon was not a fair election. No plan could
be devised more likely to bring representative govern-
ment into contempt and odium than the ballot. (Hear,
hear.) If secret voting were extended to constituencies
and nut to the members of the House of Commons a
101. oligarchy would be erected, who would be enabled' to
fashion legislation according to their own particular
18,7beeacr,a
because
a its
opponents in-
terests, and shift burdens from their own shoulders to
the shoulders of others. (Hear, hear.) This motion
spirit. (Rear,,
ref resen-
Iwtaswannotre°,aPlPl;so'pdpion§eadu oan'tittih-leibiieirtaelr'est of the unen-fran-
ochpipsoencten(tfla ewaehr,abuenarw.)illlintgwta:
boapspecoseudr,
said a few words in reply,
tation on a system of universal lying and organised
hypocrisy. (Hear, beer.)
Theytr eßaEllettfkerEaLdEivieii.loanvwine2re repeated, and
The house then divided—

Lord PAL NI E RSTON said • there was no objection
to do s:). Tne second note had not yet been answered.
As soon as it was, it should also be laid on the table
of the house.

was liable to injury by violence and insult in every
way, and her character might be traduced without
her having a civil remedy. That was not a state of
things to be continued. When a husband brought an
action against a supposed paramour he asked for
damages as a solatium for his injured honour. It was
altogether an affair of money. But to the wife it was
an affair of life and death. She had no refuge. Nobody
would countenance her • and no society would admit
her. Was that a state of things which ought to be al-
lowed to continue ° In any action of that sort, although
she had everything at stake, she was not allowed to ap.
pear. That also was a subject which deserved to be con-
sidered. They all knew that a bill passed through that
house on this subject 40 years ago by a large majority,
and that, though supported in the other house by Mr.
Pitt, Mr. Wyndham, and Mr. Wilberforce, and other
eminent men, it was there lost. With respect to the law
of divorce, their lordships knew that it was administered
Belay by the ecclesiastical courts. As had been stated by
his noble and learned-friend, divorcee were of two kinds
mensa et tlioro, and divorces a vinculo matrimonii.
No divorce a vinculo was granted by the ecclesiastical
courts except for grounds that exited before marriage ;
but divorces a menea ware granted for cruelty and adul-
tery. Since shortly after the Reformation marriage
was not dissoluble by any proceedings short of legis-
lation, and marriagee could now oniy be dissolved by
acts passed in individual cases. This practice had
been productive of great inconvenience. Every-
body had exclaimed against it—the expense was enor-
mous, 700 Z. or 800/. in ordinary cases, in some instances
more ; and, consequently, it was only certain privileged
classes that could obtain a divorce. Several attempts to
effect a change in the law had been made, but without
success. His noble and learned friend on the woolsack
now propoied a new tribunal for divorce cases. Such a
tribitual should be accessible not merely to the upper
classes, but to persons of moderate means. But, accord-
ing to the bill before them, there would have to be an
investigation into each case before two learned jades,
to examiae and decide. To that he did not object ; but
though tbe object was to have a cheap tribunal the bill
provided that after decision by the tr.l/unal either of
the .partios might appeal to the House of Lords for its
final, decision. Their lordships might either confirm
the decision or direct the court below to ermine new
witnesses or former witnesses, on a new fact, and might
direct issues to be tried. His noble arid leareed friend
had established all this complicated machinery for a
tribunal which Was intended for persons of moderate
meaba. ile'doubted whether it would not occasion more
expense than the law as it now steod did. But the prin-
ciple of the bill we that a married woman was to have
no remedy in a ease of adultery, however atrocious
might be the conduct of her husband in connection with
it. , The conduct-enhis Part might be so infamous that
it might be a horror for the wife to be connected with
such a man, yet the only ground on which the wife was
to have a claim to a divorce Wee in ease ef incest on the
part of the husband. It was said that adultery On the
part of tbe wife might bring spurions issue into the
family, but did it follow that circumstances might not be
such as to render it necessary that the ruartia;e should
be dissolved for other causes ? If a woman *was married
to a_man notorious far atrocious cruelties and for -his
infamous conduct—to a man living in open adult
was she nut, under sued circumstances, to he relieved
from her married obligations ? His noble and learned
friend had looked to the cane of the husband, and hail
regarded _him merely as -esmiewb'at profligate ; bet
what was the situation o;' the woman ? tier hepest were
blighted ; she was driven from her horn; perhaps sepa-
rated from her children, doomed to live almost alone in
seclusion, with no one on whom to fix her affections ;
exposed to the arts and designs of a base and profligate
man; scarcely able by any care or caution to avoid the
tooth of calumny or slander, and living on the brink of
desolation. Such was the state of the woman. He had
d escribed the state of the wrong-doer, and he would ask
their lordships whether the law ought to he allowed to
continue in its pres'ent state ? The noble and learned -
lord said that the wife was to have no relief except'fn-
caseaof incest ; but he might take another case, and
suppose a husband living in open adultery, and com-
mitting some infamous crime which brought upon him
a sentence of transportation. Was the woman to be
tied loesUch a Monster ? (Hear, hear.) He might sup.
poge,ca,ses in which attempts, had been made on the life
of the woman, and other cases equally strong. The
bill, as he had said, would place the woman in a worse
situatibre than she waa in at present, for at present she
might appeal to that house and state all the circum-
stances of her case—the infamous conduct of .her hue.
band, and their lordships had the diecretion to decide in

NOES-151.
Agnew, Sir A. Gladstone, Capt. S. Newdegate, C.
Annesley, Earl of Gooch, .'ir E. Newport, Viscount
Arbuthnott, Gen. ET. Graham, Sir J. Nisbet, R.
Bagee, W. Grey. Rt lion.-Sir G. Oakes, J.
Reßile, H. Grosvenor. Earl Ossulston, Lord
Baines, Rt. lion. M. Gurney, J. H. Palmer, Bounden
Baring. Sir F. Gwyn, Rowel Palmerston, Viscount
Barrington, Vist. Milford, Sir Henry Patten, Col.
'Jarrow, W. Hall, General John Peel, Gen.
Beckett, W. Hamilton, Lord Claud Percy, J.
Bennet, Capt. P. Hamilton, U. A. Pistil more, R. J.
itentinek, G. Hamilton, J. Portal, M.
Bernard, Vist. Handc,,ek, IL Pritchard. J.
B,gnoid, Sir S. Harclurt, Col. Pugh, D
Blackburn, P. Hardinge, Hon. C. Repto r., G.
Blandford, Marquis of Herds', G. Robertson, P.
Brumley-11.4re, J. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, Lord J.
Busk, Col. Hay ter, W. Ru3sell. F. C.
Bur. ell, Sir C. Heard. J. Rust, James
tturrowes, Robert Ifeathcoate, Sir W. Scott, F.
Cabbell, B E. Henley, J. Shirley, H.
Oavendish, C. C. Holfo ii, R. Smith, R.
Cf* ley, E. S. liorsfall, T. Smith, W.
Chelsea, Viscount ILitham, Lord Smollett, A.
Christy, Samuel Howard. C. St<tirord, A.
Cod higton, Sir C. W. Joni Ire, Sir W. Stirling. 'V.
Coles. if Joiliffe, li. Strawy, Sir H.
Colvile, C. R. Jonas, Admiral Stewart, Sir M.
Conolly, T. Kell 7, Sir F. Stuart, Captain
Coots, Sir C. IL King, J. Sutton J.
Cowper, W. Laboucherejlt.Hon.H Thesiger, Sir, F.
Davies, D. Langton, W. U. Tyrell, Sir J.
Davies, J. Len 'ox, Lord A. F. Vance, John
Deedes. William Le-lie, C. P. Vane, Lord H.
Disraeli, B. Lewis, Sir G.C. Verner, Sir W.
Ores, J. Liddell, R. G. Walcott, Admiral.
Duncombe, lion. A. Lindsay, Col. S. Walsh, Sir J.
Dundee, G Lowther, Capt. Walter, J.
Danorvan, Viscount Lushington, C. M. W•irren, S.
Dunne, Colonel Macartney, G. Welbv, Sir G.
Egerton, 'ir P. Mackinnon, W. Whitbread, S.
Egerton, W. Matins, Richard Whitmore, H.
Emlyn, Viscount Mainers, Lord G. Wilson, J.
Euston, , an of Master•nan, J.. Wrightson, W.
Farnham, E. Mlunsoll. Col.T. Wyndham, Gen.
Ferguson, Sir J. Miles, W. 'Wyndham. W.
Filmer, Sir E. Michell. William Wynnl, W.
Forestee, Col. Monck, Vis. Wynne, John
Galway, Viscount Moncreiff, .L Yorke, F.,
Gaskell, J. Mowbray, J. U. TELLERS.
Gilpin, Col. 11. Mulgra"e, Earl of Peacocks. G.
Gladstone, W. Naas, Lord Vys3, Col. R.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.

May 15. John Davies, Shrewsbury, printer and book-
seller.

BANKRUPTS.

fienry Stuart and Richard Kennett, tailors, Burlington-
gardens, to surrender June 3, at two, and July 1, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assig-
nee, Aldermanbury ; Richards, Warwick-street, Regent-
street.
C!iarlea Erswell, builder, Saffron Walden, Essex, June
3 at half•past two, and July 1, at on-,, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbtuy ;
.Mar by, Whitehall-place ; Collin, Saffron Walden.
Robert Johnson, furniture broker, York, June 3 and 24
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as-
signee, Leeds; Walker, York; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Charles Bradshaw, licensed victualler, Manchester, June
2 and 27i, at twelve, at the District -Coors Manchester.
Putt, official assignee, Manchester; Cobbett and Wheeler,
Manchester.
John Davie., printer, Shrewsbury, June 5 and 26 at
half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bit.
tleston, official apignee, Birmingham ; H. T. and G. Wace,
Shrewsbury ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
George Binns, cloth manufacturer, Hartshead Moor,
Yorkshire, June: 5 and July 4, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Jackson,
Checkheaton ; Caries and Cudworth, Leeds.
Benjamin Hawthorn, shoe mercer, Lisle-street, Leices-
ter square, M.y 28, and July at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Laurence, Smith,
and Fawdon, Bread-street, City.
John Howard Blackwell, and George Bennet, iron-
masters, Sineth wick, Staffordshire, June 2 and 23, at half-
past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston,
official assignee, Birmingham; Bourne, Wainwright, and
Bourne, Dudley ; T. S. James, Birmingham.
Angel Emmanuel Giudici, merchant, St. Mary-axe,
City, June 3, at half-p ist twelve, and July 1, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Linklater and Hackwood, Sise-lanu.
Robert Samuel Lundie, wool engraver, Long-acre, May
31, at half past eleven, and June 25, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; White and Cole, Martins-lane, City.
DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS.

W. Bromley, Gray's-inn-square, scrivener—third div. of
1 1-16 d. in the pound, Thursday, May 22, and three sub-
sequent Thursdays, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.
D. Davis, Newington-causeway, glass merchant—first
div. of is. 2d. in the round, Thursday, May 22, and three
subsequent Thursdays, at the office of Mr. Graham, Cole-
man-street.
G. Lea, Eceleston Coal Wharf, Upper Belgrave.place,
Pimlico, and Nrinhead-lane, coal merchant•—second div. of
in the pound, Thursday, May 22, and three subse-
quent Thursdays, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.
W. Ogler, Earl-street, Finsbury, cab proprietor and car-
rier—first div. of 5.1. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whit niore, Basinghall-street.
T. Varty and E H. Owen, Strand, publishers, book-
sellers and stationers—first div. of 12s. 6d. in the pound,
Thursday, May 22, and three subsequent:Thursdays, at
thee C.
Tainis?nth. baker and confectioner—
first div. of aid. in the poub:sl. Thursday, May 22, and
three subsequent Thursdays, at the office a Mr. Stansfeld,
oGffiocoede of. MGrre.tatafeld, Basinghall-street.
Great
Basi ugh a 11-st rest.
E. and S. Benson, Mansfield-street, Portland-place,
hotel and boarding-house keepers—first div. 3s. in the
pound, Thu, s lay, May 2''. and three subsequent Yhurs-
d3.l-4, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Ba,inghall-street.
G. Parsons, Birmingham, brassfounder and gas-fitting
manufacturer— first div. of 28. 2d. in the pound, any
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.

Aye 3
Noes
Majority against the introduction of the bill 40
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

Mr. J. PHILLIIVIORE moved for leave to bring in
a bill to take away f: om all archbishops, biji,ps, and
ecclesiastical persons in England and Wales all plwer of
appointing Judges and Chancellors, and vesting such
powers in the Lord Chancellor.
The motion was seconded by Mr. lIADFIELD.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL did not oppose the
motiou, and did not believe it was the wish of the house
that any opposition should b 3 offere I to the introduction
of a measure to remedy a ca.) ing evil, which, he said,
would have been removed if the bill brought into the
House et Lords had not met with an opposition which
had proved fatal. He made some observations upon the
difficulties encountered in the house, including unprofit-
able tall;; in passing the measures for the reform
ecc'e,da,tica I jeri,diction.
Mr. GLADSTONE, with reference to these .observa•
tions, accused successive Administrations of not setting
ttleir ehouldvra eerionsly to the wheel in grappling with