The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-09 00:00:00

DOWER BILL.

Mr. J. CAMPBELL moved the further consideration of
the report of this Bill.

Mr: BLAMIRE wished to know whether the Hon. and
Learned Member for Stafford intended to persevere in in—
troducing a clause to enable a husband to take away his
wife's dower by will ? If so, he thought it very unjust,
and he should oppose it.
Mr. J. CAMPBELL believed that the Bill bad been
more favourable to the ladies than the Hon. Member
seemed to suppose, for it had given them a right of dower
out of the husband's equitable, as well as out of his legal
estate ; and the disadvantage, if any (which he much
doubted), of the other clause, was more than compensated
by this benefit.

Mr. BLAMIRE was not at all of that opinion, and he
should therefore move that the words "or by will," now
forming a part of the fourth clause, be omitted.

Mr. O'CONNELL recommended that the law should
not be made ex post facto, or apply to any woman now
married.

Sir J. SCARLETT suggested that it might be made
to depend upon the consent of the wife.

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Mr. SHEIL supported some alteration of the clause, as
it gave the husband a power to the injury of the wife.
A conversation of a purely technical nature then took
place, in which several professional Members participated.
Sir JAMES SCARLETT, being anxious to consider
more maturely the details of the measure, moved that the
Chairman do report progress and ask leave to sit again ;
upon which the Committee divided—
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For the motion 43
Against it
Majority
The House then resumed.
STEAM VESSELS NAVIGATION BILL.

This Bill, on the motion of Mr. Alderman WOOD,
went through a Committee pro forma :—to be recommitted
on Wednesday next.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the Hattie adjourned at Two o'clock.

WA LSALL.-Mr. DE BOSCOE ATTWOOD,
eldest son of T. ATTWOOD, Esq., has declared himself a
candidate for the representation of Walsall in a Reformed
Parliament. An announcement to this effect was made
from the balcony of Mr. COTTIIRELL'S house, in High-
street, on Friday evening last ; and on Monday morning,
41r. A. made a public entry into the town, amidst thou-
sands of spectators, and under escort of the Political Union,
with flag•, Ice. After an address of thanks for his flatter-
ing reception, he commenced his canvass at Walsall, and
then proceeded to Bloxwieb (in the foreign) for the same
purpose. At five the procession returned to Walsall to
inert T. ATTWOOD, Esq. and JOSHUA SCHOLEFIELD,
Esq. who arrived about six, and addressed the populace on
the new prospects opened to the country by the Reform
Bill ; they were enthusiastically cheered. The Wednes-
bury and Darlaston Unions reached Walsall in the after-
noon. No candidate besides Mr. Arrwoon has yet pub-
licly presented himself, but it is generally understood that
Mr. Forrga, the eminent banker of that pl ice, will offer
himself, with the greatest prospect of success.-- Wol-
verhanipton Chronicle.

A hint has been thrown out to us that Dr.
RUSSELL, the late Master of the Charterhouse, (foes not
Mean to resign his stall at Canterbury; and an argument
of this kind has been suggested to us in his favour,—that
as he has reduced the Charterhouse school to a very few
boys, he will probably reduce his congregation at Bishops-
gate in the same manner, whe❑ there can be no harm in
his strolling among the hop-grounds of Canterbury for a
few months in every year. All this may be very true, but
we trust his congregation at Bishop-gate will have too
much ,pirit to receive him, or suffer him to mount the
pulpit, or pay him one farthing of tithe, except they un-
derstand that they are to have the whole of his care; and
the whole of the care of such a man, with whatever
stipendiary assistance of more competence in point of talent
than he possesses, is not too much for such a parish. He
may think himself hardly dealt by, when he looks at and
quotes (as we bear he does) the floocsozss, and the PRE-
TYIIANS, and the SPARKEs; but we pledge ourselves to
root out all that race of vermin from the church before two
years are over, or at least to prune the lux uriancy of their
wealth and insolence, and compress them within one sub-
stantial piece of preferment...— Times.