The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

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Mr. ANSTEY agreed to postpone the
10th of Aprd. Ire.
Mr. CONOLLY presented several petitions from ext
land against the Bill, and gave notice that when it ntioa
came On he should move that the further considers
of it be adjourned for a year.—(Laughter.)
AFFIRMATION BILL.
This Bill was read a second time proforma.
LIFE POLICIES OF ASSTJUANCE. until
The s' coed reading of this Bill yeas pcetpocc"
this (lay week.
vereTE.
Bill untis
MARRIAGE BILL—ADJOURNED I)-e tate
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented petitions from Pr", of
Salford, and other places in Lancashire, in
faret°
this Bill.
The adjourned debate was resumed by told
on the gr°
Mr. HOPE, who opposed the measure
tl at it was not justified either by divine or te'''''si,ter
Every one must admit that the degree of wire'hibed
was not so flagrant a case of violation of the pro the
degree as a marriage with a niece or curt, arlV,et'rer g
case made out for the rne class proved an ego gate
case for the other. The re turns which the Nig"' tof
Gentleman the Member for Bute read in seePlible
shoiscietßyiilln L"ownrdeon, n'buatileie hadu inbybis Pacns'es7°‘llsPru'ellatrarrin:'
which had been collected by a number of youogfeese
terse and in which Le placed much more reliance, beet 0,0
they could have lied no interest in deciding !hi ore
one way or the other. These returns, toe, whic rears
chiefly from the agricultural districts, embraced Pa
ea re e`
il
of small populations, where the cle, rgytneo ,- opgrc-
conversant with the situation and history of b1,.=2 emotion
gation, and of course the hest able t) give it"'r',7etteni
upon the subject. Now, he found from these ne
that within a given space of tine, no less than 26a, de,
riages had been solemnised within the probibiteeister;
green cf affinity ; 102 were with a wife 3 6 oil
46 with a brother's widow; 6 with 11l ja
niece; 19 with an aunt; and 89 easegstee
all within the degrees other than a wife'. aged
It might be urged that these eighty-nine cases actor
in the lower grades of society; but the return, wets
selves showed that it was not so. Many of tur"
taken from the higher and middle ranks of societY• oat
first case he had extracted from the returns was ad's
of a titled lady who married her firmer hangs the
nephew. The next was a Lieutenant-GenereLAl test
army, who married a lady, then rearfieusistere
lady's aunt, and afterwards that lad) 000
In another case, which occurred at
moving in a respectable sphere of life, married bulftturreer
illegitimate daughter; while in another Cashs doubt
had married his step-mother. These were newt be-
painful details, but it was necessary to give thedegrees
cause they proved a case in favour of the other ,0e0a)
equally as strong as that of a wife's sistereaell
alfltehHe
porar.ishleumfbleirentthiesnh rTeandwnlet;ters from the ,c,l:tbore.:
St. Leonard dies.
ditch; St. Peel's, Knightsbridge; 'St. Margaret et Lei;
ininster; St. Marylebone ; Christ's Church, Drove; is
St. Mark's, Old-street, City-read, and other Pit': than
mor its to
London, with the view of showing that not
one of the cases of marriage which it was now 004,00
legalizeiwn as n o their
suchhad respectivecome
c as e to
Tt
parishes,hh ee kana so
eaw,nl
det
too
ogne
manyof th 007 tehleerigillebt:
thought had fallen to the ground. Ads tthoe the P Isrs case the
poor, be would read a few extracts from the frets the
clergymen on the subject. The first Was t acid
senior curate of Bethnal-green, in which on, the
I have not heard of any instance, solosperiee
poor of this parish cf a poor man havingrrh als,
his deceased wife's sister."—(Hear, hear.) —•ento °-
another clergyman who bad entered deeply 2eflifor
subject—a clergyman of two parishes in the city o sad to
cester, containing a population of 19,000 souls oar
said, " I have never heard of any Ictitede
riages among the poor in ray parish. J.° ova
may safely affirm, there seems to be a rerY nittiort
feeling against them. * I bevy COMO to the O
ero 0:
that marriage with a deceased wife's sister se
clontrary to reason it never enters their bead,„ from
cause." use.
sanctioned If, t 1
hi e;
Pear there is more of crime and incest aristelb other
the crowded cottages of the poor than frog, en,Y t deal
Were ou io
let the House not set a trap to catch Pe°ePstract
thene—(Cheers.) He would read en, was ad);
Parliament those , marriages
bat i
fwtehreey lawful jet
from a letter cf a clergyman in a parish Whie, Wee'
toriously the most demoralised in Englat3d-eeed beet
athe parish of Devonport—a clergyman ell?, heo bs
Place
ve and-a-half pars in that parish. He 8.51";b15
heard clergymen of the longest standing in 0
!ay that when the person sent round to colleeb.„-poot co.
onl ftahvoosuer
boef,
tthaeblerrtoopsousepdpiy Billin
feoarnstmeahtieorne, be diu s seed
butA".:o 6r is
tent to take the vague onions of one who ha" - et thi"
curdtii
asor was well known n, in favour esee•
Thehad pheeteintioynesry
aa,ro‘ritnlty::
factured.—(hear, hear.) Scarcely any cicrk-nft t
place which was known to be egale
Bill had been asked to sign those Pe
and copies of the circular letter biob he
had been sent round hal in many places Willi ffnjotbet
was acquainted—viz., in Kent, Northumberland, 000
pflatcheas—pabreirh,seadnudlonunstlythfeorareargrdyeindetno. the chilre respect toof
With low
Dr. Hook's letter, some few years ago the itbsolel
Dr. Hook in the town of Leeds was aesea
despotic.te
Now, among the petitions P._ Teri
by him (Mr. Hope) to the 'louse thl'sjoed
printed
Ina
against this Bill,
by thirty-six (f Dr. Hook's clergyrrL,°°„Vbfish„i
consanguinityPaanirePhaltntonsgilitchhe
he (Mr
.Hope) found this passage—.. Certain "-a'rrittgl
oce f them was a petiJion bore stoop
both by the law of nature and by the reeeeleederele ar6;ii
God, and those degrees, as designed by the kihiritere,'"-
Dimip.olciliniooeklithse: r.ivelicearrecies,:
ex tossed in a table drawn up by Archbishop opipiorl
01f.5 6t3h,ealrndiesaertoffoLrtehttbisy.—arilrarrit,yh.'e'
aTr.h)at ;a!Ila deals
went on to say—" The law a E dee
that marriage may henceforth: nbt;eilanrderer-d,eta
civil contract ; but the Church is '1" •estrac-t
and she affirms that the word cf God treligeet
us otherwise, and that marriage is e",i' Cburcali;
contract." He went on to say—" 0 • course 'lnortiono
men must now adhere to their principles, tha„tod by thnf
is religious contract, and must be solemeiz' Alpoaa
a
Cberch." He (Mr. Ho% e) trust d, if a scan ld
the Blue Book was published by the Note wee )
(Mr. S. Wortley), those opinions of Dr. 11°- (ficarl
be given in an appendix a little more fullY• be feelle
The first place at which meetings were held' eiber
from the Leeds Mercury was atb Huddersflei is be
the attendance was numerous. The nest w 505 he'd e"
Ramsden-street Chapel, in Leeds. Another we. one re:
York,
where the attendance was both ourstretl'o
then
spectable.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) •Ilt octet
meetings Mr. Slay was present in the charv,Whei:
chief lecturer. The next meeting was at Dewshudiesirebh't:
the meeting was not so numerous As wtili dell
greatly to the disappointment of the projectors t
Mr. Slay bad endeavoured to hold a meeting a )
pool, but it proved a total failure.—(Hear' Sehle.
Honourable Gentleman then read a series °` cnt'a-
cations from Wakefield and other Oise"' tier " ;
opinions of writers, principally clergymen iseae cl va'9. °is
facturing districts that the law as it DOW E" wen
°
oppression on the lower orders. ne then to safe
to say,
that it was only a mists different
principle
that the law of England Was tr
principle from that of every other count* aodegefat
law it was necessary to restrain licentiousnes'tlibettf p,
individual must give up some portion of Isar, then rt;cl
the common weal, and under the English toeoe jet
F. traints against marriage were so few that thcieeYoistedl.
to eo oppression whatever. The Church held b
the law of marriage was founded ou the 18,10,e1Y
ter cf Leviticus, and there it was , es of ca-i;
ea
al anrgendi
sanguinity
that w
emriewpriraogheishibteedt v.v—ee(ntic‘earrt,aiiiteeacri.l gage rtse-rei
sba should orl u
flud
were
tb e e rememberedtheyif
ttto
e yp r
ace, could not
allowed the transgression of the law in °,,npeieg clirrtiae
sister of a deceased wifelvleo marriage, the noir
"and aione•instocj
riages with aunts, nieces', and otber reletiVaariegeee;•
hear.) And should permission for such . ia the ta)
those be granted, to what degree of irePur,jitrear, heLes
Lionel character might they not descead?aik "-doe
wnwtheadtthetwhopearoi gd rpersesfeen-b2i(iibile_st.,:;
They must stand upon one ground or sinotuF'_', hot e'
say that England, f:r the last three centurieesture or,_.
on a wrong track, and must place her
ife7yre:thbseele:prjebeijiolt::
similar relation as Prussia, or they must r- toter ,95
tion on unions which were contrary to Serlopacieeod
striction which might be burdensome to the the foe
of some, but which was necessary for yid those
of all. In England they bad
prohibitions on the marries or
which existed in other couetri agea, wherett'ight,he°oo
was not permitted to marry a lady who be cow,' 000
aunt, or his mice or his wife's sister, it sSac ec'
produce the re quisi!e number of quarterings•gosoisebsd
the case in Slaw, and in what state were thetlosst
biltty now he would ask? Their proude!oted bl.ttees
been their ancient Christian blood enteldorehibitheir
Moorish mixture, and to reserve this they At 'OO
on the marriages of their nobility, endo3o7elizet
state now—dwarfed dissolute, and de had I' AlO
in hitherto Christian England they ha", dto 6.11,1" 00
prohibition. He (Mr. Hope) had been gle;oserte",eieg
been •
in the Bill of this year there had wove oro
clause which Le rejoiced to see, for *Wilt was ibeiloti*
prevented was a gain to morality, and ty,eitight:„ed
hibition against marriages with a niece- 9,00140 i
Gentleman, however,in one of the motives he ' d so of
to at
for the bringing forward this ocaeurtehe sa-9'rofi'
lamentable ignorance, and that was; that steee Pe es'
these marriages among the poor called for fool dto
sion from the Legislature. He could ehcl'ould reiesasee
tract from a Manchester paper which be oeeer for
them, that this rims not the case—that
in that part of the country at least showeudrestaacAe that
any such marriages, and that their nacho" hope"tbeo
not lead them to desire such unions; en have
moral England never would submit to
legalized.
the DO denies did

(LEFT SITTING.)
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On the 2d i
a°tnhe 2d innsstt: ,
Tumor, of a (laughter,---,_.
at Streatham,..., the wife of James
Car°l`'lB
of
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at Stoke Rochford, the

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On the 2.Bth ult. at
,ater
1ti.3213./Ejt)olldersbciely
rmtna, fifth daughter• 0. frsq'
of William r
►;reen, Hadlow, "r chaste'
, to Mr. Edw. In Hedgeock,
ph Cu'hrch, 601

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DIED
On the 28th tilt , at Penshurst, Kent, Pclia
the wife f F • 'oF. R. Lee, Lel., R.A., eged 46' merit
On the 28th ult., ' t .51 l , 13uclis, 'jet
a urs 0), nre f
Causto En, 4 ci. &or, k 02.
War .0
On the 4th inst., aged 83, Mrs. Catherine the 1>
of the late NV. Ward E Secretary t°
Scotland. ' r"'
sq.'
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