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TION BILL:

Oa the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Sir E. PERRY asked the house to agree to the
second reading of this for Ilia hif,,u,e to go into
committee to-morrow (Thursday) pro formra t' add cer.
tain amendments that would tinprovu the ecopz of the

Sir G. GREY said that he bai had a comniu.aication
with the Lord Chief Justice relative to these amelid-
inents which the Government had recolurneaded, and as
be considered they would materiaLy improve the bill,
be (Sir G. Grey) thought the course proposed the beet
that could be adopted.
The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed tomorrow.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, BILL.
The committee on this bill was resumed. The remain-
ing clauses were agreed to and several new ones added.
The bill was ordered to b 3 reported with amend-
ments

TROOPS FOR INDIA.
On the motion for going into Committee of
Supply,
Colonel NORTH, in the absence of General Codring-
ton, asked the Under Secretr-y for War the reason
for sending only 140 men to the East Indies as the com-
plement of a troop of horse artillery when the war
complement of such a troop was 253 men.
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that this force cf art llery had
been put under orders for India in the same way
as all troops in compliance with a requisitial made to
the home Government by the East _lndia Compa Jy.
That requisition specified the number to be sent. The
number of each troop and company required had been
so arranged as to bring the total force within the requi-
sition made by the East India Company ; and that was
the reason why this particular number had, been de-
cided on.

BUSINESS OF THE DAY.
Mr. SPOONER objected to the house going into
supply before the orders of the day were diiposed of.
Such a course was contrary to usual prac• ice, and de.

prived private members of proceeding- with their bilk.
He moved that supply be postponed till atter the dia-
posal of order No. 12 (Erection Petition Bd.).
Sir G. GREY defended the course proposed to be
adopted by the Government from the period of the
session. He, however, consented to the orders of the
day being taken seriatim, and supply afterwari
Gi-REAT YA.RMOIJTH ELECTION.
The petition of Charles Woollen, contlued in New.
gate for contempt in giving his evidence before the
Great Yarmouth Election Committee, was taken into
consideration. In consequence of his having txpredsed
contrition for his conduct, it was ordered ttiat he be
discharged from custody.
BURIAL ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.

The bill was read a third time and passed.
The summary proceedings before Justices Bill, the
Metropolitan Police Stations, &c., 8,11, and B iundaries
of Burghs Extension (Scotland) Bill were further consi•
dered and ordered to be read a third time.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passe,i.
ELECTION PETITIONS BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Sir G. GREY expressed his objection is the bill.
and moved that it be read a third a time this day three
months.
A. discussion ensued, in which Mr. Spooner, Mr.
Newdegate, and Mr. Henley took part.
Mr. MALINS suggested that the la shoal I be with•
drawn.
Mr. SPOONER, in the absence of Mr. Adderley,
the promoter of the bill, said that as Pat liament had
affirmed the principle of the bdi, he would consent to
that course. The bill, with amendments and improve.

meats, could be re-introduced next session.
The amendment was then agreed tq.
LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES
ACT AMENDMENT BILL.—ADJOURNED
DEBATE.

Mr. MALINS moved the second reading of this bill.
Lord R. GROSVENOR objected to the further pro-
gress of this bill, the object of which was to repeal the
clauses of an act passed last ees-ion, to prevent the
inclosure of Hampstead-heath and restrain Sir T. M.
Wilson from building thereon. The noble lord referred
to the proceedings that had taken place in and out of
Parliament on this subject, and condemned the course
proposed by the hon and learned member for
the mover of the bill, in proposing the repeal of an Act of
Parliament almost before it hat begin tried and the
effect of its Provisions ascertainei. He c nit ended that
the act did no it jury to Sir T. M. Wilson, and as re-
garded his wish to build on waste land near
Hampstead Heath, as stated in the debate of last
night, no objection would be offered to it. He
moved the second reading of the bill this day three

SPOONER supported the sec ind reading of the
i‘ir. months.
bill. He said that the idea of Sir T. M. Wilson's in-
tending to inclose Hampstead Heath bad arisen from a
misapprehension. The clauses in the act referred to
would inflict great injustice not only on Sir T. M. %Vil.
Ban but other persons, because the laud on which he
proposed to build was copyhold property, and was not
near Hampstead Heath. The heath could only be in-
closed by a special act of Parliament, so that the inhabit-
ants of the Metropolis were amply protected.
Mr. BUTT, as a member of the select corn nittee who
acceeded to the introduction of the causes in the act of
last session, opposed the bill, which was au attempt to
unceremoniously unsettle what had been the subject of
mature consideration. the claim was introduced in
consequence of Parliament having on a former occasion
refused Sir T. M. Wilson's application far a private bill
to inclose the heath. He looked upon this measure as a
public bid for the private relief of Sir T. M. Wilson, and
considered that if that gentleman wanted reliel he should
apply to the house in a proper manner, when it would
be carefully and impartially cint-WerPd.
•-• Mr. HENLEY considered that Sir T. M. Wilson's
name ought not to have been introduced into this de-
bate, but that the bill should have bceii discussed on
its merits. He opposed the bill on its m,rits. An ap-
plication having been made by Sir T. M. Wdeon and
refused by Parliament, it ought not to have been re-
peated in this form.
Mr. NAPIER supported the 'second reading of the

bill.
Sir D. NORREYS said that if it hai rot been f .r
Hampstead Heath this disewsion would rot have
t tken pace. The power of purltarn-mt ha l been brought
to bear cn an individual—(no, I.lo—to deprive hlrn of
the rights he would have been permitted to enjoy had it
not been for his misfortune in possestAng a, property that
the people of London coveted and wished to obtain on
its own terms. (Hear, hear, and No, no). It was non-
sense to talk about enclosing Ila,upstead Heath. If
parliament proposed it or attempted to SAnction it the
noble lord (Lord R. Gro tvenor) would be found
fraternising with his Hyde Pork unrl,4 and coming to
that house in connexion with the right ,hou baronet the
member for Marylebone with hi; represertt'v.l councils
and Sunday bands, and the other hon. ute-mber for
Middlesex heading the brewers (loughter) to intim d
the members of that Ulnae. (Rent wed laughter.)
[LEFT SITTING ]

.11••••••• _
TRH Taus, or SPoLLEY.—DuBLIN, Tuteday.—The
jury have returned true bills against bpolte a.
The trial
is fixed for Friday next.
At the first meeting of the London Disco ulto nt Compan
noy
yesterday, Mr. W. Scholefieid, M.P.. ;at &lair,
dividend was declared, the net profir, 3,832/ ,
being oar.
ried forward to the next account.
mention
It is stated that all the nre,,,ners of th,. 'East India
Company's civil service at present on leave of absence
have, with the exception of
the biers, beau ordered to
return forthwith.
laceprr'ln P7-Aii n
EtiTATst?:nB.halAl,
thaTtheaperiNvaetwe letters
yorkcfreonmtraA.i anteariilcra:my,teseteornadr;yany
have
declared a dividend of 4 per ueut. paya.ble to the holders
in England on the 21st of September.
tAoNokD
most
F onses N
interactinglGclieTr
eI NmGoInL;
woolwieb, which was highly decorated with colours- and
flowers for the occa.ion, yesterday, whet
. a new lodge of
Freemasons, No. 1,000, was cons4ecrat ed under the title
of the Florence Nightingale—a fitting tribute f
members, who nearly all belong to the ;I:toal
Artillery.
the
The ceremonyD
was performed by - Y
master, the Right Hon. Lord the
new
D.
grand
PAninure.
M. BERTOLACCI AND THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—
The skied committee of the Muse of Conuaons has re-
ported that the case of M. Bertolacci, as developed by
the evidence, adduced before them, does mot appear to
require the interference of the House. They opine, at
the same time, that . the presentation of
tbo recent pet!.
tion should not prejudice the present position or future
prospects of M. Bertolacci, still less derogate from
former claims, for the committee think
B tliw-,
erto throug
actehout,
oven when moat clearly in error, M. lacci d
bone fide accord rig to his deeply stated and sincere
conviction that in his person the privileges cf the office
of auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster had been infringed
PRICE OF GoLD.--.The quotation of gold at Paris is
and the short exchange on
about 5 per mills pren ‘llllll,
London is 25.20 per 1/ sterling• On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 31.17 x. 10id. per
ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about
4.loths per cent. dearer in Pares . than in London. By
advises
from Ilamburg the price of gold is 4224 per
mark, and the abort gold
onLonden is 13.4rper U.
sterling. Standard gold ra., the English Mint price is
therefore about -10ths er .cent. dearer inHambYorurg k
on
than.
in London. The courpse of exchange at New
London for bills at 60 dad's' sight is 109 per cent.
which, when compared with the Mint par between the
two countries, shows that the exchange is slightly
in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of nterest, the pre
sent rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation o
gold from the Unittd States.

wanted freedom of conscience let them come amongst
IMk'ERIAL PARLIAIVIENT. Dissenters where they would be able to luxuriate on it
to their hearts' desire. (Laughter.)
Mr. RIDLEY supported the clause.
Lord EBRINGTON said that there had been
several of there disputes in the dioceses over
which it was the misfortune of the Bishop
of Exeter to preside, and what was remarkable
io connection with them, that Tories of the old school
had been as indignant as dissenters against the bishops'
conduct. He thought it was time to show the bishops
that if they lorded it over the clergy, they must not over
the people, and that they were not superior to the law.
Mr. NEWDEGATE considered the Legislature bad
the effect of destroying discipline in the Church. Par-
liament ought to have sufficient courage to compel the
bishops to do their duty under the present law.
Mr. SALISBURY supported the clause.
The clause was then agreed to.
Mr. KNIGHT moved the addition of a clause to the
bill, the effect of which would be to give burial boards
the power of making their own bye-laws, and thus get
rid of the present controul over them of the Secretary of
State for the Home Department.
Mr. MASSEY on the part of the government objected
to the clause.
A discussion ensued after which the clause was
negatived without a division.
The remaining amendments were then agreed to, and
the bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUSTICES
OF THE PEACE BILL.

LOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTERDAY.)
The LO.RD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at five o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.
On the motion of Lord R_ EDESDALE the following
bills were severally read a third time and passed :
Bristol and Irish. Grand Junction Railway, New Bruns.
wick and Canada Railway and Land Company, Sitting-
bourne and Sheerness Railway, Tweed Fisheries, Herne
Bay and Faversham Railway, and Finsbury Park
(No. 2.)
Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from the
ratepayers and guardians of Newtoir Abbott, Devon-
shire, praying that delegates of the ratepayers might be
associated with magistrates in deciding all matters rela-
tive to the levying of county rates.
THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL.

This bill, as amended, was read a third time and
passed.
NORFOLK ESTUARY ACTS AMENDMENT

BILL.
This bill was also read a third time and passed.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS BILL.

On the motion of the Ea►l of HARROWBY, the re-
port on Ibis bill was brought up and agreed to.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.

On the motion of Lori REDESDALE, the report on
this bill was brought up and agreed to.

BANKING BILL.

On the motion of Lord STANLEY, this bill, as
amended, was read a third time and passed.
CROWN SUITS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, this
bill was read a third time and passed.
CALEDONIAN AND CRINAN CANAL BILL.
This bill, on the motion of Lord STANLEY of
ALDERLEY, was read a third time and passed.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (IRELAND)

BILL.
This bill wag; read a third time and passed.
GLEBE LAND (IRELAND► BILL.
Thl9 bill WAS read a third time and passed.
LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES (SCOTLAND)

BILL,
The bill was read a third time and passed.
CHRIST'S CHURCH (WEST HARTLEPOOL)

BILL.

This bill was als, read a third time and passed.
LAND TAX COMMISSIONERS NAMES BILL
On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY
this bill passed through committee, and was reported
without amendments.
CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK BOUN-
DARIES BILL.

On the motion of EArl GRANVILLIS this bill Was read
second time.

EDUCATION.

Lord BROUGHAM presented three petitions on the
subject of education—one from the parish of St. George's,
Hanover square; one from St. James's, Westminster;
and another from Chatham. They stated that all parties
Wishing to enter the legal medical profession required to
pass an examination while those who wished to be-
come schoolmasters were subject to no snail ordeal, and
they prayed ttnt this (Lida might be remedied by
compelling parties seeking to fill that responsible
office, to undergo an examination, in order
to test their fitness for the duties. Formerly his opi-
nion was against such examination, but he now entirely
concurcel with the prayer of the petition.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

The committee on this bill was resumed and the
clauses were agreed to.
METROPOLITAN POLICE STATIONS &c. BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
BOUNDARIES OF BURGHS EXTENSION
(SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion for the house going into committee on
this
Loid MELGUND protested against the bill being
proceeded with, with so thin an attendance of Scotch
members. He had various objections to the bill. He consi-
dered it ought not to be carried on, and he suggested that
the bill should be postponed till next session.
After some remarks from Colonel SYKES,
The house went into committee, and the clauses were
agreed to.
DUNBAR HARBOUR (CONSOLIDATED FUND.)
The report was brought up and agreed to, and a bill
ordered to be founded thereon.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES
- (STAMPS.)
The report was brought up and agreed to.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION (IRELAND) BILL.
The amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to and the bill was ordered to be read a third time
to-morrow.
WILLS, to., OF- BRITISH SUBJECTS ABROAD
BILL.

The amendments to this bill were also considered and
agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time on
Thursday.
ELECTION PETITIONS BILL.

clause., that no suit for jactitation of marriage shall be
entertained, was expunged.

The debate upc;n the 6th clause, which occupied
much, time, brought into view the efftcts of the Bill in
relati on to marriages and divorces in parts of the
empire other than England, to which the bill is

Upon reaching the Bth clause the Chairman was or-
dered, to report progress. _ _

The Insurance Companies Bill WAS committed pro
forma. _ _ _

The Clerks of Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill was
withdrawn.

The Representative Peers (Ireland) bill passed through
committee.

Lord BROUGHAM also moved for certain returns,
with a view of showing the operation of the existing
law with respect to the costa attending judgments on
bills of exchange.
The returns were ordered.
SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

This bill was read a first time.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH CONTINU-

The committee on this bill was resumed, and the re-
maining clauses were agreed to, and ordered to be read
a third time to morrow.
BURIAL GROUND (SCOTLAND) ACT (1855)
AMRNDMENT BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
The sitting was then suspended till 6 o'clock, when
the house resumed.
STATE OF THE THAMES.

ANCE BILL.
This bill VMS read a first time.
BURIAL GROUNDS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill wag read a first time.
Their lordships then adjourned.

Mr. WHITESIDE, in moving the second reading of
the Lessees and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amend-
ment bill, dwelt upon the injustice which be said bad
been done to Sir T. M. Wilson with reference to Hamp-
stead-heath, and which this bill was intended to
remedy.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords amendments to the London and South-
Westtro Railway Acts Amendments Bid were con-
sidered and agreed to.
NEW WRIT.

The-motion was seconded by Mr. MALINS.
Mr. COX moved the adjournment of the debate, and
after some discussion this motion was agreed to.

Oa the motion of Col. TAYLOR a new writ was
ordered for Beverlsy, in the room of Mr. E. A. Gl)ver,
whose election has been declared void.
PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA-
TION BILL.
Mr. M. T. RAIN ES, in the absence of the Attorney-
General, moved the re-committal of this bill, in reference
to the ne' clauses agreed to last night (nonday).
Mr. HADFIELD expressed a hope that the Govern.
ment would reconsider the formation of districts under
the bra.
Mr. HENLEY expressed his regret that the house
should be called on to give an opinion on the new
clauses on so short a notice. He had had no time to
manaine them, and therefore he was not in a pceition to
offer an opinion on them one way or the other. In ad-
dition to the new clauses, there. was a page and a half
of other amendments on the paper.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the recom-
mitment of the bill had been put on the order of the day
in accordance with the decision of the house last night
( Monday). Toe bill was to be recommitted with the
amendment?, and any objections to them considered on
the bringing up of the report. The hon. and learned
gentleman then entered into the provi,ions of the
clauses, and defended the course Government bad taken
in reference to the proposed changes in the law, which
was merely a repetiti,m of his statements made last
night to the house in committee on the bill. He con-
sidered there was no grounds for complaints urged by
the two hon. gentlemen who had addressed the house
against its going into committee.
Viscount GODERICII thanked the hon. and learned
Attorney-General fur the candid manner in which he
bad carried out the wishes of the houses expressed in the
debate of last night.
After some discussion,
Mr. M. T. BAINES' said it would be better for the
House to commit the bill pro forma, and discuss the
principles of the amendments on Thursday next.
Mr. SPOONER. said that Mr. Matins, who originated
the amendments, considered no discussion was to take
piece on them till Thursday, and therefore he was absent
from the house that day.
The home then went into committee.
The amendments referred to were agreed to pro forma,
and the hou-e resumed.
BURIAL ACTS AMINDMENT BILL.
This b 11, as amended, was considered.

PERSIA AND HERAT.
Mr. WARREN asked whether the Government had
received any intelligence of the refusal of the Persians to
evacuate Herat ?

Several amendments were agreed to without opposi-
salon.

Lord PALMERSTON.—I do not believe that any
intelligence had been received as yet with regard to the
evacuation of Herat. I do not think there has been
time for a communication to be made after the arrival of
the Commissioner at Teheran.

The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock.

RUSSIA IN INDIA.

(From the Morning Post.)

Everybody who has lived in an Eastern country
is aware of the rapidity with which intelligence
passes from hand to hand. Even before printing
became general up the Mofussil, reports were cir-
culated in India almost with the quickness of the
electric telegraph. A rumour—a watchword—a
common cry—an event—was passed from mouth
to mouth and from station to station, the original
propagator running like the Swedish Vorespann,
and delivering his message, whatever it might be,
to a friend, who ran likewise his assigned distance,
committing the message to a third party. In this
way-immense spaces were traversed in a single day,
and intelligence was communicated by some fifty or
sixty runners to thousands of people, influencing
them either for good or evil. Something of the
same system appears to have been adopted by the
native Press and newswriters in India. Whenever
the conductors of this infamous press perpetrated a
peculiarly malignant or incendiary article against
English rule, care was taken to spread it far and
wide by trustworthy runners and messengers—by
what, for want of a better word, we will call the
Indian Vorespann. In this way it was that litho-
graphed lies were spread through whole presiden-
cies without stint or measure, and that the only
news circulated was poisonous news. That the
noxious venom produced its effect on the native
mind there can be no doubt ; but whether the wri-
ters in this native Press were instruments and tools
in the hands of some foreign power, or mere gratui-
tous incendiaries, remains yet to he proved. The
native editors, writers, and contributors to the In-
dian Press are all a bad and disreputable-set of men
who have learned little of European civilisation but
its corruptions and its vices. Desperate in fortune
and ruined in character, they may have ac ed solely
from the desire to create mischief and confusion and
to profit in the scramble, but we think it much
more likely that they are the ready tools and paid
instruments of a foreign Power, and that Russian
gold has been profusely distributed among them.
Our French contemporary, Le Pays, announces
in a letter from Calcutta, that a certain Russian,
whose name we need not print, had been very busy
for some time in British India, and that, a short
while before the mutiny he had set out for Delhi.
Now, this looks more than suspicious, and, coupling
it with the previous intrigues of Russia in Persia,
Affghanistan, and British India, and the subse-
' quent events, it is more than suspicious—it is
damnatory. With 'a few thousand pounds in
hands, supplied by Armenian or Greek bankers, or
money-lenders at any of the Presidencies, a Russian
agent might find half-a-dozen natve editors pre-
pared to do his work, and ready to send these
nouvelles a la mama, these incendiary flying sheets,
through not merely Bengal, Behar, and Benares,
but through the country of the Nizam, Oude, and
the Guicowar. In the days of Louis XV. the 1
Lientenant of Police, notwithstanding all his vigi-
lance, could not prevent the circulation, through-
out French society and the provinces, of satirical
articles directed against the French King and his
mistresses, and these nouvelles a la main were for
the most not printed, but written in thousands and
tens of thousands of copies, for more easy circula-
tion. in India, where there aro myriads of
crannies, or writing-clerks, who could easily tran-
scribe a page within the dimensions of an ordinary
visiting card, it is not difficult to suppose that
written sedition or treason may have been propa-
gated far and wide. Under these circumstances
it was a measure of wisdom and precau-
tion to place the native press under stringent
restrictions. As to the Indian Press published in
the English language, its conductors are now
under a grave responsibility, and we trust they
will feel its weight. They must be well aware
that now our real strength in India consists of
the European element ; and to that element they
should give a generous support. We can now,
and for some time to come, only retain our domi-
nion in Bengal by the power of the sword and by
a large military establishment; bat notwith
standing this hard necessity imposed on us by
mutiny, the country will be as well and es justly
governed as at any antecedent period. That the
country has been justly governed appears float
this, that the people have been quiescent and pas-
sive, while it is the soldier only who has mnti-
nied. The men whom we have paid for our
defence have proved faithless, and the people
whom we have taxed, according to some Indian
reformers, not wisely but too well, have been true
ti us to a man. Recent Governments, whether
Protectionist, or mixed and Coalitionist, appear
to have attempted to change too much in India
for the sake of change. All dianee is not reform
or improvement, and there are not wanting many
able men, who know India well, who consider that
we have attempted too much rather than too little
in Hindostan. There is a noisy, busy, restless,
fussy faction in India, as well as here,
where it calls itself the People and Parlia
ment, and former Cabine's have too often
yielded to the pressing clamour of these cliques.
Nothing has more tended- to exasperate the
Brahminical caste against British sway in India
than this anxiety to alter, if not to amend—to
change, if not to ameliorate—to reform, if not to
elevate, the native. No doubt it is our duty to
rescue the Indian people, if we can, from the de-
spotic dominion of the native priesthood ; but this
must be done, if at all, gently and slowly, and not
rashly and precipitately.

Mr. MASSEY moved the insertion of a clause to
the effect " thti 52 Geo. 3, cap. 146 eec. 4, recited
enactoient, not to apply the burials in grounds provided
under the burial acts."—Agreed to.

Mr. ESTCOURT obtained an order for returns of
copies of correspondence between the First Commis,ioner
of Works ani Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney and the Com-
missioners of Sewers and the Board of Works, on the
state of the river Thames and the pollution of the atmos-
phere on the banks of the Tbames and the Houses of
Parliament.

As the Brahmins consider the tendency of all
education, amelioration, and improvement, pretty
much in the light in which the Pop'sh priesthood
regard the reading of the Bible—namely, as op-
posed to their undue dominion and power—it is
quite certain they have worked on the prejudices
of the sepoy against our sway, partly from per-
sonal motives connected with their priestly func-
tions, partly because they are, like the newswriters,
the paid instruments of a foreign Power. But,
notwithstanding the knavish tricks and treasonable
practices of newswriters and Brahmins, aided by
foreign gold, we shall continue to hold our Eastern
Empire—first, by the exhibition of an over-
whelming force ; but, within twelve months, by
our moral influence, by the opinion entertained of
our wisdom, our justice, and of our equitable
government. The permanent causes of our suc-
cess and power in India lie in the discipline of our
European troops, in the general zeal and union of
the civil servants and the military for the public
service,an I in the commanding influence of that
national repute which has never been sullied by
tyranny, or tarnished by injustice.

rlji SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY
_EV EVENING,. AUGUST 5, 1,57

an obligation which is not an obligation—the very
practice most emphatically and terribly denounced
through,,ut the New Testament—the very burden
so to speak, of the Evangelic and Aposto!ic dis-
courses. For our own part, w•e do not pi etend
improve much on the morality of the New Testa-
ment. We leave th•it to Dr. Phillimore, Mr, S.
Warren, and the nine thousand teachers of the
Church.

We need scarcely say we have no great respect
for the intelligence, scholarship, or even the can-
dour of these nine thousand, in any high sense of
that word. But we will say why. What they de-
precate is the creation of " factlities" for divorce,.
" unauthorised by Holy Scripture and by the law
aria ritual of the Church." Now, the only
" facilities " threatened are the substtution of ju-
d;cial for Parliamentary pAyedure ; tha is, o fjudges
sitting in a room on the West side of Wes' minNter-
Hall for the very same men, probably, sitting in a
room on the East side of the same Hall, in both
cases proceeding on the very same principles,
maxima, and precedents. These are the " facili-
ties," very awful, no doubt, but not of a nature to
be found particularly described either in Holy Scrip-
ture or in the law and ritual of the United Church.
'ln fact, it is as unreasonable to require that the
me,sure under discussion should be found in the
Bible or Prayer-hook as that the Victoria Tower,
or Big 8.,n, or the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms,
or the standing orders upon railway bills should be
found in those d;)cuments. So much for the sens 3
displayed in this declaration. Next for its scholar-
ship. The second clause begins :—" Retnernbering,
also, that it is declared in the Word of God that
marriage with a divorced woman is adulterous."
We beg to assure the nine thousand clergymen that
what they are pleased to remember so positively
and distinctly is a downright untruth. It is nowhere
declared in the Word of God that marriage with a
divorced woman is adulterous. What is declared is
simple enough, and appeals, like all the morality
in Scripture, to ordinary good sense and gold feel-
ing. It is, that whoever married the woman who
had been put away wantonly and catre!essly, with
a bit of paper in her hand, containing a form of
words and a text or two declaring that she was at
liberty, did virtually commit adultery. All the,
passages refer to one particular practice, to one par-
ticular form, expressly describe I and indicated by
the words " put away"—as much a particular form
as that by which the Jews were in the habit of
avoiding their filial obligat7ons on a pretended de-
votion of their wealth to the Temple. The term
which these gentlemen have translated "a divorced
woman," as if it meant any woman divorced under
any circumstances, does not mean that, and it is a
gross misrepresentation to say that it does. It
means a woman put away in one particular form
and manner, then much in vogue, and resting on
one of the traditions or abusive interpretations of
the law.

If the Bill did really affect the clergy—if it
really altered their position with regard to the
marriage of divorced persons, it would be time to
consider their claim to relief. But the fact is that
every year several couples of divorced persons are
launched on society to he re-married by someb .dy
or other. They might fall to the lot of any clergy-
man, yet, it so happens we never heard of any
objection to perform the service, nor do we believe
such an objection has yet been shown. The clergy
are only too desirous to marry as many as they
can, without any inquiry at all, and taking the
word of the people themselves that there is no
obstacle to their union. There are numerous Acts
of Parliament securing to particular churches the
marriages of large districts, like the old monopolies
compelling people to take their corn to one particular
mill, and the result is that in the metropolis,
and in many large towns, scores of couples are
married at once, all equally and utterly unknown
to the officiating minister. The grievance, then, as
far as we see, is not at all likely t 3 be felt, even if
each clergyman's chance of having such a marriage
as that under question should be somewhat in-
creased. Were the grievance real, and were the
clergy now called on to do what they might not
have been called on to do before, there might be
a clause for the benefit of those who have taken
orders on a different •understanding. Of course,
all who may henceforth become candidates for ordi-
nation will do so with their eyes open, and be
prepared to obey the law. The existing clergy, on
the proof of a real grievance, might be permitted
to make a formal protest before the first day of
the operation of the new Act, and he allowed the
benefit of that protest till, on further considera-
tion, they saw reason to withdraw it. There are
things to be said for and again.t such a provision,
but it would give no inconvenience, for there ,
will always be clergymen ready to perform the
ceremony, and it might deprive some wrongheads,
or blunderheads, of a very foolish opportunity of
making a disturbance.