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Commons' amendment to clause 30, the effect of the
amendment being practically to maintain the action of

man would seek to perform marriage in a brother clergy-
man's church against his will.
The house then divided—
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Non•contents
The clause as amended was therefore agreed to.
The other amendments of the Commons were then
agreed to, and their lordships adjourned at ten minutes
psst one.

or m. coo.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said clause 7, which
the Commons had inserted, practically maintained the
action of crim. COD. When the bill was before their
lordships he gave way-on that point to the opinion
generally expressed by their lordships, but he was much
struole with the argument of Lord Wensleydale, that
there were cases in which the husband suffered great
pecuniary loss by the separation from his wife. He
moved that the Commons' amendments be agreed with.
The Duke of ARGYLL supported the Commons'
amendments. At present the action for crim. con, was
resorted to in all cases because it was necessary, but un-
der this clause the fine, which was the substitute for that
action, would only be inflicted in those eases in which
the husband had sustained pecuniary loss.
Lord DUNGANNON supported Lord St. Leopards'
amendment.
The Bishop of LINCOLN objected to the amendment
made by the Commons, considering actions for criminal
conversation highly objectionable.
The Earl of DONOUGHNIORE also objected to the
amendment.
Lord REDESDALE said the amendment was an en-
couragement to husbands to commence actions for da•
wages on account of his wife's guilt.
The Bishop of OXFORD said that every one of the
evils which had been so eloquently pointed out as attach-
ing such actions would attach to the amendment which
had been made in the bill.
The Earl of HARROWBY defended the clause as
amended, and hoped their lordships would agree to it.
Their lordships then divided on the question whether
the Commons' amendment be agreed to, and the num-
bers were--
Content—Present
Proxies 45-77
Non•content—Present
Proxies 27-67-10
Lord ST. LEONARDS, with some warmth, expressed
his surprise that the Government should have called
proxies. (Hear, hear.) It was a violation of all under-
standing of the proceedings of the house. They were,
as it were, in committee, examining a bill clause by
clause. (Hear.) The noble earl, of course, could say
he bad a right to take that course, but no one could say
that the vote just taken was the decision of the house.
He had meant not to give any vote in opposition to the
Government in this debate, but he did expect fair play.
(Hear.) But could it be said that this was a fair vote,
when my lord this or my lord that were called by their
names to vote who had never heard a word of the clause
—(" Question," and " Order,eorder," and cheers)—and
which was carried by mere numbers' - He complained
of the manner in which this clause had been carried, and
he believed the voice of the country would condemn it.
Earl GRANVILLE said the noble and learned lord
might take any course he thought fit with regard to the
management of the business of the house on his own side
of it ; but he owned he was surprised that the noble and
learned lord should object to proxies having been called,
and in what be had said on the subject he had stated
several things which were not correct. This was not
the first time that a minority had complained of proxies
being called ; and in Ibis very session the same com-
plaint was made by a noble lord ; and when he (Lord
Granville) was about to rise to justify the course taken
by the Government, he was anticipated by the noble earl
the leader of the other side, who rose and gave the noble
lord in question ebb greatesCdressing that be ever sew ad-
ministered. The house was not now in committee. When
the noble lord opposite (the Marquis of Bath) opposed
a previous amendment, with that fairness which always
characterised him, and on a division succeeded against
the view of the Government, he (Earl Granville did not
call for proxies ; but the present was a question of far
greater importance, and believing that he and his col-
leagues were in the right, and that the rejection of the
amendment would endanger the passing of the bill in the
other house,she should have neglected his duty if he had
not called for proxies.
The Marquis of BATH complained that the proxies
had been used unfairly, without notice. It was only that
morning that they heard that proxies were to be called.
The Commons' amendments were then agreed to.
On the clause which legalises the marriage of persons
divorCed on the ground of adultery, but as amended by
-lhe Commons relieving the clergyman from the necessity
of performing such marriages when he entertains con-
scientious objections to them,
Lord ST. LFONARDS proposed to introduce words
for the purpose of confining the clause to a preseut in-
stead of a prospective operation.
The Bishop of SALISBURY remarked that -there
were cases where the clergy not fairly feel a moral
repugnance to marry persons who had been divorced for
adultery, but believed that the effect. of this clause
would be to. introduce disorder amongst the clergy.
Indissolubility of marriage was the law of the church,
but the clergy had no right to complain if the legislature
made a law exempting certain persons from the opera-
tion of that law as far as their relations with the State
was concerned ; but they had no right to interfere to
prevent the church from carrying out its own laws in the
chnrcb. He appealed to their lordships not to constrain
the consciences of the clergy to do that which they be-
lieved contrary to the law of Christ. Let them make
these marriages a civil contract that they would provide
the relief required without doing anything to offend the
consciences of the clergy.
The Bishop of LONDON had no wish to go into the
question whether marriage was indissoluble by the law
of Christ. His opinion was that it was indissoluble
by the law of Christ. He believed that the clause had
been introduced and perhaps opposed by many under a
wroeg impression. A great number of the clergy, it
I was true, held that marriage was indissoluble, but a still
greater number thought there was an unsuitableness in
the solemn words of the wedding ceremony for the re-
marriage of adulterers, and on that ground alone did
they object to perform the ceremony. lie believed, also,
that it was under such impression that a large number
of the clergy had signed the declaration, and it was on
that ground, and on no other, that he wished to have
the exemption here given become law. There were words
in the marriage service, perhaps, not suitable to such'
marriages, and there being a vast number of the clergy
who, believed that marriage was dissoluble, that marriage
after adultery ought to be dissolved, it was quite &insis-
tent for such clergy to object to the use of the service
under certain cirbuinetances. There had been four divi-
sions in that house, but their lordships had not thought
exemption expedient. The question went then to the
lower house, where the clergy should be thankful for
having obtained any concession. He should then advise
the clergy to accept the compromiseoffered by these two
clauses. (Hear.) If the present state of things was to go
on much longer he believed that public morality would
very much suffer, and therefore was he anxious that this
bill should pass. If anything should prevent it passing
this year the clergy might depend upon it they would
have little chance of exemption in a second. (Rear,
hear.) By law clergymen were obliged to marry
divorced parties at prelent, and as to the puesh church
clause, -he did not think it at all likely that adulterous
parties would often put it into force by insisting on
being married in their own parish. It should not be
forgotten that there was a strong notion abroad that the
clergy wished to domineer over the laity, and the House
of Commons wislied the principle that the church be-
longed as much to the people as the clergy to- bo esta-
blished, and therefore had they inserted the second
clause. His advice to the clergy was to accept both
clauses, as he believed they were the best compromise
that could be get. (Hear, and cheers.)
Lord DIJNGA.NNON supported the amentment. He
conscientiously belieVed the bill to be a most mischiev-
eus measure, and this clause one of the most mischievous
portions of the bill.
The Bishop of OXFORD was bound to say that the
whole principle upon which this immunity for the clergy
was asked for was somewhat mistaken. It was supposed,
apparently, that the clergy wore asking to be free from
I something to which other subjects were liable. But the
truth was, that what was asked was thhich all other at the clergy NEWFOUNDLAND TELEGRAPH CABLE.--AA piece of the
should not bo subjected to that Newfoundland telegraph cable, which was lost last year,
from- w
classes were fres. Let them recollect that they were not has been fished up, and successfully laid 'across the river
going to impose upon dissenting ministers the liability to at Detroit, Michigan.
marry persons divorced. (Hear.) It was only the clergy CktILD MunDEß.—Early yesterday morning the body
of a male child, about two days' old, was found murdered,
of one particular sect—the established church —who were
to be so liable. It was no answer to say that the feet of by straugulation, on the doorstep of Mr. Knight, builder,
their being ministers of the established church was a rea- Harp-lane, Tower-street.
son for their being subjected to this duty. That might [Anveanseeteee.]—Holloway'S Ointment and Pills.
have been a just argument when a person could not —By the joint action of these two inestimable specifics
have married except through the established church all cutaneous eruptions are quickly banished from the
but now that dissenting ministers were placed on
system, the worst description of wounds or ulcers are
easily eradicated, the morbific matter which nature finds
the same footing as ministers of the church, b con-
verso, the latter ought not to be subjected to liabilities injurious to her are thrown out, and a thoroughly healthy
-to which the former were not subject. He would %en - state Of the blood and fluids is the result, restoring a
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tore to submit to their lordships that this was not a case sound mind and bo yto sufferers after other treatment
in which the government ought to use proxies, and he
has been found ineffectual ; in many cases saving surgi-
did so because this was a matter so much of detail, that, cal operations, and even life itself, by their miraculous
although the principle involved was a great one, a noble power.— Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the
lord who held a proxy could not say for certain which world, at Professor Holloway's Establishments 244,
S way the nobleman whose proxy he held would himself Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by
have voted. For his own part he would rather see noth-
A. Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna, and
ing whatever granted to the clergy than see the bill in
f.9l=aTtaxlmtsarir. .1— Siam AND HEARING —SPECTACLES
its present shape. There was not a word in the clause w
rOWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE
staying the bishop, and he would not hesitate to say that — and 13. &lemons 39, Ail, if he knew of any one of these interlopers coming te a eGel'eAseeser.eneSea.dilly. -Ohgerve—oppiosite opticians,the York Hoteepal,a'Wl°-.
church, he would meet him at the church docoeby staying By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
him with a prohibition. His object was to prevent the traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant
revival of the old Fleet marriages. Who was it that I Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
would come into a parish to perform these marriages? Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopespossess
Why, it was only the wretched, skulking man, who was such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
living away from the parish on account of debt, hardly with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons
venturing to ,
, show his face anywhere, and he would cone Saturn's ring, and the double stars; with the same telescope
merely to get the miserable fee which be might obtain can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant
kand an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
by intruding into. the parish of his brother clergyman cooawe-prsocacecte, rdyiare of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
who was spending all his strength for the good of his
very The Royal Exhibition, 1851. am -A valu-
flock.t
Often had he heard measures 'objected to in that ariblee newly-invented,rul;-small,bywhich powerful,a person W
nt Waistcoat-pocket
seent- p cakned house, on the ground that they would interfere with the Glass, the size of a waln,
discipline of the clergy; but was anything ever before known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur-
contemplated equal to the sending into a parish a man pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country
who had no qualification whatever, except that for a cer- scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They
tain reward he was ready to do a certain job, which he are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
knew to be most hateful to those who were labouring sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
there in spiritual things ? He besought their lordships Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful
powertlnvaluablet preserving
not to adopt this portion of the clause; and if that were
adopted, he should beseech them to reject altogether the greatest
ro.this invention power. "'he viThsieo
so-called boon, which would be a new die race and a served and strengthened, and very aged persons are epabled
Spectacleg tadvLa
liemapairedeiase oge da° r ipvreed.
new division of the clergy of the established church. to employ their sight at toe most minute occupation—Can see
Their lordships then divided— with those lenses •of a much less magnif, ing power—and
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Majority for the amendment of the House of
can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send-
Commons —s ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and
Dmrness.___Tgew DiFcove7.—The Organic
stating the dist duce from the eye they can read small print
The Bishop of OXFORD then moved that their lord- with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by
ships should disagree to the clause in foto.
The Earl of CARNARV ON supported the motion, Vibrator,
, stating their age;
rditarily powerful, sa all, nevvl •
entirely different ,ft y-invent d
others,
observing that it. would have been better if the Govern- :instrumentof the kind teams as been, or all
ment had denied all concession than attempted to disarm surpassing a y
a
be rodnuced. Being of the same colour° as or probably
Iftoxrthtdianifness,
the skin, can,Pis
hostility by such means.
not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly a
Lord REDESDALE also supported the motion. Had ' church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation ot
the clause came back without the addition, he should singing noises in the ears is entirely rem". d,
and it affords
have accepted it as a boon. As it stood, ho felt bound all the assistance that possibly could bo desired.-2-3-4. Mee.
to oppose it. He did not believe any honourable clergy- marle•street, Piccadilly.—Opposito the York Hotel, W.

FATAL SEWERS ACCIDENT.

THREE LIVES LOST.

A. shocking sewers accident took place this morning
about nine o'clock in Whitechapel-road, facing the en-
trance of the late Pavilion Theatre, which resulted in
the death of three of the workmen, and injury to others.
It appears that as each pipe is set it is necessary to place
a board over the bore so that the dirt should not get
into it as the labourers fill in the working. Fitzpatrick
was in the act of removing the board so as to fit
in the last portion of the pipe, when a rush of foul air
from the main sewer came in full power upon him, and
the unfortunate man fell forward. Another man named
George Franks, unconscious of what had really hap-
pened to his fellow-workman, descended the excavation,
and on reaching the bottom immediately fell senseless
to the ground. The cries of some boys brought other
labourers _to the scene, and three more unfortunate
fellows, AN illiam Bingham, William Goodge, and an
Irishman, named Hines, hastened down to the bottom
of the sewer, and were as quickly overcome by the
poisonous air, and the five poor creatures were
to be seen lying on the top of each other.
Hooks were then procured, and the, unhappy fellows
were brought up to the surface. Fitzpatrick, Franks,
and Bingham were found to be quite dead. Goodge and
Hines were insensible ; they were removed to the Lon-
don Hospital, where, after some exertion, they were
brought to, although they continue in a very critical
state. Further openings were then made into the foul
pipe, and everything done to clean it, but the work will
not be resumed until fully examined by the sewers' en-
gineer. Two of the sufferers were married and have left
families.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A JOURNEYMAN ON HIS
EMPLOYER.—Tbis day, Robert Deans, a journeyman
tailor, was charged before Mr. Beadon with a most
violent assault on Thomas O'Connor, No. 5, New Peter
street, his employer.

The complainant stated 'that about 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon he was crossing Pall-Mall. at the end of St:
James-street, when he saw the prisoner, who was
formerly in his employment. He went into the shop of
Messrs. Hobbart, Pall Mall, on business. When he
*me out he again saw the prisoner, who obser that
he would murder him (complainant). He went away
from the prisoner, who observed, " I will murder you
if you do not give me some money." He had been
previously informed by some parties at a public-
house, where the prisoner had been, that he
remarked to them that he would pay him but,
meaning complainant.; ,rie subsequently met the pri-
soner in Metcourtestetet, but had previously seen him
in Ryder-court. Then he exclaimed, " Why, are you
not going to give me some money I" Complainant made
no reply, upon which he laid hold of complainant by
his throat ; he grasped complainant so tight that he
thought he should have been strangled. He then
knocked him down and fell upon him, and became nearly
insensible. [rhe complainant's shirt in the front was
covered with blood, and there was a patch of adhesive
plaster on the right side of his head.]
Everot, C. Sergeant, N 2, said that he saw the com-
plainant on the ground, and he was repeatedly knocked
on the kerb by the prisoner. Witness took the prisoner
away, and the complainant was conveyed to the hospital,
where the surgeon was almost inclined to keep him.
The prisoner was fined 51., or 2 months' in default of
payment.

DARING BURGLARY AT THE ROSE AND CROWN,
RUPERT STREET.—David Evans, John L. Draper alias
Raper, and James M`Carthy, young men, were charged
with the following daring attempt at burglary at the
Rose and Crown, Rupert-street, Haymarket. Mr.
Austin, junr., attended for Draper.
It appeared from the evidence that at about two
o'clock that morning inspector Park of the C Division
received information which led him to go to the Rose
and Crown, in which he was told these were some per--
sons. While in the street three men came out of an
empty house adjoining. There were some other
constables at the door. Evans was seized hold of by
Savage, 130, F. The other two ran away. Draper was
pursued by Mr. Park -who was not able to overtake
him. Savage want afterwards to a house in Monmouth
court where lie found Draper and M`Carthey. He
told them what he wanted them for and took
Draper into custody. M`Carthey went down
stairs and was about to run away, but was
stopped at the door by two police-constables. Savage
found two latch-keys on Draper, and tieT other keys
were found on M`Carthy. They were conveyed to the
station-house. Savage further stated that he had, in the
course of the previous evening, seen the whole
of the prisoners together in Moor-street ; and the
landlord of the Rose and Crown proved that two of
them were drinking in his taproom before 12 o'clock
last night, where they were above an hour. An alibi
was endeavoured to be proved in the cross-examination
by Mr. Justin, but his identity, as well as that of the
other prisoners, was deposed to by several witnesses.
Sergeant Thomas, F Division, said that Evans and
M'Carthy were well known to the police ; and another-
constable stated that Draper and Evans were the asso-
ciates of thieves,

Mr. Austin applied for bail for Draper, who, he saki,
was respectably connected. This was refused, and they
were severally remanded for a week.

SOUTHWARK.

POT STICALING.—Sarah Hales was charged by Mr.
William Barton, the proprietor of the Waite Swan,
Blackfriare-road, with stealing a pint pewter pot, his
property. The prosecutor stated that he had suspected
the prisoner of pot stealing during the last nine months,
and the previous night he was sent for to attend the sta-
tion when he saw the prisoner and the pint pot produced
which he identified as his property. Mr. Matthew
Grogan, ,of 18, York-street, a licensed victualler said
that ho was present and heard the prisoner call for
half a pint of porter, when she took the measure
outside the house, and after drinking the contents was
in the act of walking off with the measure concealed
under her arm. He ran after her and stopped her, and
found the pot in her possession.

The prisoner made a most ingenious defence, she
asserting that she thought it was her own measure; but
the magistrate could clearly see that th© prisoner was
an adept at the work, and sentenced her to t No months
imprisonment with hard labour.