The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—l have read with much pleasure the letter of
your correspondent, "M. C. C.," in which she suggests
that the ladies of England should raise a subscription for
the purpose of presenting. Lerd Lyndhurst and Sir
Erskine Perry with a testimonial, in the shape of some
work of art or article of vertu, as an expression of the deep
gratitude of our sex for the noble exertions of
those gentlemen in our behalf in opposition to
the many objectionable clauses in the Chancellor's
Divorce Bill. I am one, I hope of many, who
responds most cheerfully to M. C. C.'s proposal, and
beg to cffer her my thanks for her admirable and well
timed letter. lam sure that thousands of our country-
women will respond with equal cheerfulness. M. C. C.
asks that some lady of position will give to her sugges-
tion a more tangible shape. I can only say, I shall be
most happy to send my name and 201. subscription,
whenever M. C. C., by advertisement or otherwise, in
your paper, will do me the favour to say how I can
communicate with her. —I am, &c.,
A LADY OF TITLE.

►PORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ASCOT RACES, FRIDAY.

The meeting was brought to a most successful close, and
the interest which the racing excited at the commencement
was fully sustained to the end. The sport was wound up
with a dead heat, which, however, was not run off, and the
weary bookmakers and tired race officials quitted the Heath
with their faith in the old axiom respecting the impossibility
of having too mach of a good thing materially shaken.
The weather was g'oriously fine, and the attendance of ge.
neral company was, for a last day, unusually large.
Sweepstakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for 3-yr:olds ; colts,
Bst 71b;. fillies, Bst 31b. T.Y.C. (5 subs.)

Duke of Beaufort's The V gil, by Bay Middleton, Bst 31b
(A. Day) w. 0.
The Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Bowes divided the forfeits.
Sweepstakes of 50 r ovs each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b;
fillies, Bst 31b. Old mile (4 subs.)

Duke of Bedford's Keepsake, by Weatherbit, Bst 71b
(S. Rogers) 1
Mr. E. Day's Bannockburn, Bst 71b (D. Hughes) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Keepsake. Won by six lengths.

A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, with 300 added,
by the South Western and the Staines and Wokingham
Railway Companies. Swinley Course.

Mr. Simpson's Fright, by Alarm, 3 yrs, Est 71b ...(Prior) 1
Capt. Christie's Lawn, 4 yrs, 6 t 121 b ...,,....(D. Hughes) 2
Lord Exeter's Turbit, 3 yrs, Est 91b (J. Rogers) 3
The following also ran :—Tournament, Vulcan, Aleppo,
King of Scotland, The Dupe, Cotswold, Shirah, Rhisus,
Orianda, Star of Albion, Pauli Monti, Signal, Nereus, Rot-
terdam, Cantrip.
Betting :-5 to 2 agst Aleppo, 5 to 2 agst Cotswold, 7 to
1' agst King of Scotland, 8 to 1 agst Signal, 10 to 1 agst
Fright, 100 to 8 agst Nereus. Won by a length.

The First Class of the Wokingham stakes of 5 sevs each, for
3 yrs old and upwards. Last three quarters of the New
Mile. 17 subs.
Captain Christie's Nougat, by Sweetmeat 3 yrs, sst 131 b
(J. Rogers) 1
Lord Exeter's Beechnut, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Edwards) 2
Capt. Christie's Kestrel, 4 yrs, Bst (Hughes) 3
The following also ran: -The Early Bird, Noisette, Good
Friday, Bold Buccleuch, °viands, Blue Bell, Naughty Boy,
Leo, Mabel.
Betting :-3 to 1 agst Beechnut, 5 to 1 agst The Early
Bird, 100 to 15 agst Nougat. Wou by a neck.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; 3-yr-olds' 7st 91b ; four,
9st 21b ; five, 9st 121 b ; six and aged, IGst 21b.
Mr. R Sherwood's Fright, by Alarm, 3 yrs .. (Prior) 1
Mr. T. Dawson's Mysterious Jack, 3 yrs (Bullock) 2
Lord Exeter's Turbit, 3 yrs (Charlton) 3
Betting-7 to 4 agst Fright, 5 to 2 each agst Sir Colin and
Mysterious Jack. Sir Colin was tailed off.
The Second Class of the Wokingham Stakes of 5 sovs. each,
for 3-year olds and upwards. Last three quarters of the New
Mile (7 subs.)
Mr. Webb's Eardrop, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Prior) 1
Baron Rothschild's Evening Star colt, 3 yrs, 7st 71b

Hughes) 2
Mr. Swami's Hardwick, 3 yrs, 7st (J. Rogers) 3
The following also ran ;—Tam o'Shanter, Peter Flat, and
Ruth.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Hardwick, 4to 1 each agst Eardrop
and Peter Flat, 6to 1 agst the Evening Star colt. Won by a
length.
For the Borough Member Plate, Gleu Lee and Percy ran
a dead heat. Glen Lee afterwards walked over-

BEVERLEY, HULL, AND EAST RIDING RACES.
• The stand Stakes, Thursday, was won by Mr. Stebbings's
colt by Flateatcher. Thames Darrell second.
The Scurry Stakes was won by Early Dawn ; Dr. Sand-
with second.

The East Riding Handicap was won by Logie o'Bucham ;
De Ginkel second.

The Londsborough Produce Stakes was won: by Sermon ;
Esperance second.
Margery Moorfool walked over for the Westwood Stakes.
The Gold Cup given by E. A. Glover, M.P., was won by
Pantomime ; Thames Darrell ran a good second..

LATEST BETTING.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
5 to 2 agst Skirmisher (taken.)
ST. LEGER..
sto 2 agst Blink Bonny (taken to 600/,)
4to 1 agst ignoramus (taken to 5001.)
10 to 1 agst Arsenal (taken)
10 to 1 agst Drumour (taken).
20 to 1 agst Sydney (taken to 1001.)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
NonniUMBERLAND PLATE.
4 to 1 agst Skirmisher (taken).
7to 1 agst Underhand (taken).
10 to 1 agst Heir of Lynne (taken).
12 to 1 agst Mongrel (taken).
ST. LEGER.
50 to 20 agst Blink Bonny (t)
4 to 1 agst Ignoramus (t)
12 to 1 agst Drumour.

HORSES STRUCK. OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
On the 4th inst, at 5.55 p.m., New Brighton out of all
his handicap engagements to date.
On the 4th inst, at 5.55 p.m., England's Beauty out of
all her engagements.
On the sth just, at 9 a in., Lord Stately and Accurate out
of all their engagements at Ascot.
On the sth inst, at 7 p.m,, Ellington out of the Ascot
Cup.
On the 6th jest, at 9 a.m., Kingmaker out of his engage-
ments at Ascot.

On the 6th inst, at 9 a.m., Duchess of Sutherland out of
her engagements at Worcester.
On the 6th inst, at 9 a.m., Miss Curl eut of the New
Stakes at Ascot.

On the 6th inst., at 9 a,m., Welham out of the Hunt Cup,
Ascot.
On the 6th inst., at 9 a.m., Dusty Miller out of the Ascot
Stakes.
On the 6th inst., at 2.45 Ariel, Miss Nightingale,
Result, Companion, Rebaßion, Eclipse, Carmel, and M.D.,
out of their engagements at Ascot.
On the 6th inst., at 3 p.m., Victoria out of the Hunt Cup,
Ascot.
On the Bth inst., at 9 a.m., Gortschakoff out of all his en-
gagements,
On the Bth inst., at 9 a MI, Blue Jacket out of the Ascot
Cup.
On the Bth inst., at 9 a:m.; Royal Sovereign out of the
New Stakes and the Biennial Stakes at Ascot.
On the Bth inst., at 11.25 a.m., Mincepie out of the Ascot
Cup. •
On the Bth inst., at 12 a.m., Lucifer (dead) out of all his
engagements.
On the Bth inst., at 12.30 p.m., Mary Copp and Oltenitza
out of the Four Year Old Triennial at Ascot.
On the Bth inst., at 1.15 p.m., Xauthus out of the Ascot
Stakes.
On the Bth inst., at 6.15 p. in., Lance out of the Ascot
Cup.
On the 9th inst., at 9 son , Siding out of all races for which
he is now handicapped.
On the 9th inst., at 9 a.m., Octavia out of the City Plate,
Worcester.

Brompton out of the Chelmsford Handicap and Welter
Cup as soon as the weights appeared.
On Thursday, June 11, at 2 p.m., St. Giles out of the As.
cot Cup.

WEIGHTS FOR THE GOODWOOD CUP.
(Calculated to the sth of June.)

Age st lb.
Early Bird 6 9 12
Polestar
Mary 5 9 5
Fazzoletto 4 9 1.
Fisherman
Rogerthorpe 4 8 12
Pretty Boy
Artillery
Pryor (American) 5 8 9
Monarque (French) 5 8 9
Kestrel
Melissa
Enchanter 4 8 3
Zig Zag a 8 3
Viscount
P. lawns (American) t 77 11
. Snecze
C' by Flying Dutch- •
man—Barba .. .
St. Giles.,-'_,...
Gamma diVergy 3 7 7

Age st lb
Anton .. . . . 3 7 7
Blue Jacket . 3 7 7
Wardermareke 3 7 7
Sir Colin 3 7 7
Zaidee 3 7 3
Arsenal. 3 T 2
ltiseber . . .... 3 7 2
Znyder Zee
Sprig of Shillelagh 3 7 2
Mongrel (h b)
Sweet William 3 613
Dalcamara
Gunboat 3 6 13
Lord of the Hills_ 3 6 13
Gaberlunzie
Flying Englishman 3 6 13
F by Sweetmeat—
Sis. to Lanercost 3 6 9
Arta
Florin (French) 3 6 7
Potocki (Frencl:,`„ 3 6 -7

857,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at 5 o'clock.
The Duke of ARGYLL presente I a petition for fur-
ther restrictions on the liquor traffic.
The Duke of NE WCAS rLE prese ited a petition from
Nottingham against the Sale of Pois 'us Bill.
The petition was referred to the select committee now
sitting on the subject.

THE STATE APARTMENTS.
Lord RAVENSWO,ITH drew the attention of their
lordships to the extremely inconvenient arrangements to
which ladies attending her Majesty's Drawing-room
at St. James's Palace were subjected. He begged to ask
the noble lord the President of the Council whether her
Majesty's Governor-nt had given any directions towards
remedying the inconvenience ?

Earl GRANVILLE said tee Commissioner of Public
Works had given clir,-..ctions for the preparation of plans
for giving better accommodation.
THIRD READINGS.

On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following
bills were severally read a third tlne and passed :
Ley's Divorce, Chepstow qaq, and Reversionary In-
terest Society.
PRINCESS ROYAL'S ANNUITY BILL.
This hilt passed through cimmittee..
THE CASE OE• 11& STUART.

L^rd CLEMENTS asked her INtajesty's Minis-
ters why the pr ,tection of the police was to be
removed ir ma David Stuart in the county of Leitrim,
and why the Government required bins to emigrate Or
otherwise to provide for his perAsnal safety, and to
what extent the prosecution of Protestants was to
be permitted? The noble lord then proceeded to impute
partiality to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in granting
greater protection to Roman Catholics than Protestants.
Lord GRANVILLE said the universal esteem in
which the noble lord, the Lord-Lieutenant of Inland,
was held was the best answer be could give to the
observaions of the noble lord on his lordship.
With respect to the question the noble lord bad
asked, the circumstances were as follows :- Two years
ago Mr. Stuarts house was brokenopen, and agun taken
away. There being reason to suppose that an ill will
against that gentleman existed the Government di-
rected that two policemen should reside with bim.
(Hear.) He had given notice of his intention
to emigrate, and directions were given, ordering the
police to return to their quarters. Mr. Stuart, however,
altered his plans and did not emigrate, and, notwith-
standing the expense, the Government had given
directions for the police to return to that gentleman's
house. There was no intention on the part of the Govern-
ment to remove the protection given to Mr. Stuart.
Viscount DUNGANNON asserted that the Executive
Government had displayed a decided partisanship in
favour of Roman Catholics, and denied evenhanded
justice to the Protestants.
Lord CLEMENTS said that if their lordships would
grant him a committee he would prove the assertions be
bad made.

Earl GRANVILLE said if the noble lord moved the
appointment of a select committee, and proved to the
satisfaction of the house that the charges were
not frivolous, he should have no objection to the appoint•
meat of such a committee.

The subjeat then dropped.
TRANSPORTATION BILL.

The Earl of LIARROWBYthen moved that the house
should go into committee on this hi', the object of which
was to enable Government to comply with the wishes of
the colony of Western Australia, and at the same time
to obviate some of the evils at home to which the ticket-
of I,avd system had given rise.
Lord CAMPBELL objected to the bill as being vir-
tually a scheme to make transportation ratber a reward
for meritorious criminals than a punishment for the worst
offenders.

Lord GREY' could not agree with Lord Campbell in
this opinion. He should support the bill on the simple
ground that it retraced as far as possible the erroneous
step which the house took in 1852 and 1853, and enabled
the Government in future to make use of transportation
to as great an f xtent as was practicable to relieve the
country from the presence of a class of persons who had
become dangerous to the peaceable and well-disposed
part of the community.

Lord CARNARVON thought that the Government
took too narrow a view of the question, and was con-
vinced that many other portions of the British empire
might be found as well suited for purposes of transporta-
tion as Wei-tern Australia.

Lord DERBY thought the bill a very imperfect and
uneatisfacory measure. It proceeded on no principle
whatever, and left everything in a state of uncertainty.
The house then went into committee, and the several
clauses were agreed to.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES
BILL.

The report of the amendments to this bill was brought
up.

'Lord REDESDALE said be had given notice of cer•
tain amendments, the object of which %as to enable
those of her Majesty's subjects who from religious con-
victions 6id not think themselves justified in asking for
a divorce to obtain a jud►cial separation in cases of adul-
tery, and to authorise the court in such cases to punish
the guilty parties. As the bill now stood the court bad
not the power, unless a divorce was prayed for. He
should not, however, press the amendment on that
occasion. •

The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had some amend-
ments tl propose. After clause 6he proposed to insert
a clau-,e enabling the c urt to pronounce a divorce for a
judicial separation in alt cases where a divorce a mensa
Ft tboro might now be granted. By the 17th clause a
judicial separation might be decreed after desertion for
two years. It might however happe❑ that the absent
party would return, and be in a position to Show tb:*t
the desertion was involuntary on his part—that he had
been imprisoned or cast on a desolate To meet
this else, he proposed to insert a clause authorising the
court to reverse the decree of desertion when it was
shown that it had been obtained in the absence of the
party, and tLwi there was reas ;nable ground for the de-
sertion. It zngtit sometimes happen that parties who had
Len separated wuull come tigether agai❑ ; in such cases
it was important to preserve the right of third parties
who had dealt with the wife as a femme sole. He there-
fore proposed that a book should be kept in the court,
in which parties should enter the fact of their return t
cohabitation, and until that was done the creditors should
retain all their rights against the wife.
On clause 49,

Earl NELSON proposed an amendment to the effect
that the rerearriage of the parties after a divorce should
be confined to a civil contract. By this bill they were
proposing to repeal an ecclesiastical statute which at
least professed to be based on scripture. Now, as the
advocates of the bill put the scriptural argun.ent aside,
it was but common justice that they should not seek for
ecclesiastical means to carry it out. They could not ex-
pect that those clergymen who believd that these mar-
riages were contrary to the law of God would perform
them. (Hear, hear.)
Tne LORD CHANCELLOR hoped the house would
not accede to the amendment of the noble lord, which
proposed that marriages should take place before the
registrar. The law having ,aid that these persons were
no longer man and wife, he could ❑ot understand the
scruples of those clergymen who said that the lam en-
acted what was unlawful, and therefore they would not
co•'forna to it.

The Bishop of ST. DAVIDS said that if the ques-
tion were simply argued with regard to the law of the
church, he should feel great difficulty in saying that
there could be a law of the church which was repugnant
to the law of the land. But with regard to the law of
God, it was impossible to override that, or that any law
could affect religious scruples entertained on that ground.
The avowed object and tendency of the en,-asure was to
multiply the cases in which these marriages would be
contracted, and he thought they were bound to respect
the religious scruples of those clergymen who considered
such marriages contrary to God's law.
The Duke of ARGYLL said that the proposed amend-
ment would prohibit any clergyman, whether ho had
scruple; or nor, from celebrating tbese marriages.
("No.") If that was not the effect of the aniendmer.t
he was much mistaken. Tne amendment proposed to
omit the words "marry again," for the purpose of in-
serting " marry in the office of the registrar or any build-
ing registered under the Marriage Registration Act."
ft seemed to him that the amend uent was a step to-
wards the separation of church and state.
The Bishop of OXFORD said the noble duke had for-
gotten the effect of the act passed in the last session o
parliament, because that act met the question he had
raised. The state of the law under that act and under
this amendment would be this, that the marriage might
take place in the office of the registrar ; but having
taken place in the office of the registrar, the parties
might have the services of a clergyman to superaid
the religious form. (Hear, hear.) All persons
therefore, who wished, might take advantage oftflihi.sact
for the purpose of being legally married at tli office e
b
the registrar, and they might to this superati d
reli-
gious ceremony, on the condition of tin
ser-
vices of a clergyman who felt no religious scruples the
cru,
e ate
pleasi,n
performing it. But he thought it was
manlike, politic, and in aocordancea withs only
the wniee
principki of
religious liberty, to respect the ec
men who thought these remarriages
of those clerg
to be sinful. Ile
received a letter that day from a clergyman who belong-
ed to what was called the evangelical portion of the
church, and who said that he and others of the clergy
had strong objections to the celebration of these mar-
riages.
To adopt the amendment of the noble earl would
only be to follow in the track of the act of last session.
He hoped, therefore, their lordships would adopt the
amendment.. (Hear.)
Lord REDESUALE supported the amendment. They
permitted the Quakers to make an affirmation because
they entertained religious scruples to the taking of an
oath, and the scruples of the clergy against the perform.
ance of these marriages were entitled to equal respect.
(Hear, hear.) He confessed that if he were a clergyman
he should object, with his views as to the indissolubility
of the marriage tie, to marry these divorced parties.
Earl GRANVILLE said he had no expectation, as at
present advised, that the Government would be able to
acquiesce in this amendment. The noble earl was willing
that the registrar should ratify the civil contract, while
the clergyman was to be relieved from the religious cere-
mony, as being opposed to the law of God. Was the re-
gistrar, then, to violate the law of God, while the cler-
gyman upheld it
Aft,r a short discussion, in the course of which the
Bishops of CASHEL and LLADIDAFF supported the amend-
ment. _

Earl GREY said that as the civil contract would be a
sufficient legal contract, and as many clergymen bad
scruples in this matter, surely the house °ugh! to pay
some xespect to those scruples. It was admitted that the
law of the land was Earamount,but eiill religious f3Clui,les

should be respected, and they should remember that it
was pushing religious scrsp!es too far that bad caused
the terrible schism in the Church of Scotland. Ha
hoped, therefore, that her Majesty's Government would
reconsider their determination, and that in the meantime
the noble earl would not press his amendtnent, but bring
it up on the third reading, by which tiro,, be hoped that
her Majesty's Government would have altered their
minds.

The Bishop of GLOUCESTER bore testimony to the
number of clergymen in his diocese who objted to so
lemniae marriages under the circumstances contemplated
by the noble earl's amendment. He feared that if they
were coerced in this matter it would be the first step
towards a separation between Church and State, and
therefore felt bound to support the amendment.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY opposed the
amendment, and put it to the house whether, if they
gave the clergymen discretion in this matter, they would
not open a door to the plea of scruples of conscience in
various other matters which were imposed by the la v of
the country. He complained of this attempt in a thin
house to reverse a former solemn decision of their lord•
ships.

Viscount DUNGANNON denisd that the house was
taken by surprise. The noble earl's amendment had been
regularly placed nn the papers.
Earl NELSON repelled the charge of surprise, not
having written to his most intimate friends respecting the
clause. He regretted he could nut adopt the suggestion
of the noble earl (Earl Grey) opposite, which was a good
one, if accompanied by any promise from the Govern-
ment to reconsider their decision. As that promise had
not been given heshnuid feel bound to divide the triune.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took a formal objection
to the wording of the amendment, which he said would
not carry out the purpose intended.
Lord DENMAN opposed the amendment, and the
house divided,
For the insertion of the words—
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Some verbal amendments were added, and one or two
notices were given for the third reading, after which the
report was agreed to.

The Bishop of OXFORD gave notice of his intention
to move the third reading of the bill " that day six
months," should his noble friend's (Lord Reclesdale's)
amendment be negatived.
Their lordships adjourned at 28 minutes past 9 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTBEDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords amendments to the Invernes and Nairn
Railway Bill were considered, and ordered to be read a
third time.

The Burslem arid Tunstall Gas, and the Wycombe
Railway Bills were read a third time.
The Great Northern (capital) bill was further consi-
dered, and ordered to be read a third time.
ELECTION PETITIONS.
The SPEAKER announced that the petition against
the return of the hon. member for Athlone was otjec-
tionable, and the order for its discharge was read and
agreed to.

PIMLICO IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Mr. smirs, the examiner of petition,' for private
bills, reported that the standing orders relative to the
Pimlico Improvement Bill bad been complied with.
MARGATE WATER BILL.

On the motion of Mr. FOSTER, the bill was recom-
mitted.

THE ITALIAN LEGION.

Major S. KNOX presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the late Italian Le4ion, complaining that the Go-
vernment had broken faith with them.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC ACT.

Mr. GRIFFITH gave notice that he should bring in
a bill to repeal the 17 and 18 Vic., chap. 31, commonly
called the Railway Traffic Act.

THE STEAM NAVY.

Sir C NAPIER g-Nve notice that on the 7th July he
should move for a rdturn of the number of steam vessels
in each harbour, the numbe► of horse power, and whether
high or pres-ure, and screw or paddle wheel, etc.
Mr. LAURIE asked the Under Secretary for War,
whether the regiments at and on their passage to the
Mauritius had orders to proceed to China ; and whether
the pay would be at the same rate as the regiments new
quartered in India ; and, if not, why not ? He also re-
peated the question as to when the orders of the Medjidi
will be i-sued.

Sir J RAMSDEN said the troops on their passage
to the Mauritius were only in the usual course of relief.
The troops in China would only receive the usual pay
paid in Hong Kong. The list of personae. titled to the
orders of the Merlji•li would soon be published.