The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

VOT'I'NG FOR DIVORCE.

A writer in a contemporary says :—" The M 31,1
rage and Divorce Bill has passed the Lords 01'
come down t.) the Commons. In the course efi,4
progress pet turns and protests for and against',
have i;ccupit d attention. The result
many excellent and conscientious persons is a ter'
min amount of confusion of wind as to the objvc,
and the results of the bill, insomuch that many ~,'
par to think the., vo ing for The bill is voting J.,,t)
divorce in general and for facility of divorce in It
titular. If Mr. aidd, Mr. Forster, or Mr. Burke'
or any of the compilers of our Peerage lists, voto
extract from those al i,tocratic and popular volni,
the mimes of all tie great families in which
vorces have taken place, and the names of t 1091;
who legitimately inhedt as the offspring of n' 3$
riages made al', es divorce, it would go far towsl.4
convincing reeacitrant minds that nothing noir ;
proposed to them except. the form by which °p
already established result is to be obtained. " i
n,
.11 those p irties who pretest against the Dl
vote's Bill can conscientiously say that they do I'l'o
believe it ever was or can be in the power of tplo
English Parliament to sever those who have be;rl
united by the. Church ; that they denot believe '4
the power of so enabling them to contract sse(/i
marriages., nor, as a consequence in the legitita3o
of those who bear some of the titles and i".thtij.
much of the proprty of great families in Eng.'9'l
if voting members consider 'that the clergrii,
who, in obedience to decrees of divorce in P 41.01
ment, remairied those divorced partiesinerely°o
through a vain empty form, for which they
ip
highly cen.urable before God and man, 'O6l
God's name let them vote aga nst the bill. Punio,
they believe the pet marriages of divorced peov
set down as valid in Registers and Peerages t°
valid in point of fart, if they admit the legitivls,
of heirs, made legitimate by legislative divore'"ced
they admit that the clergy can remarry div°l.ol
persons as they can remarry parties released by
ivi
widowhood of death ; then they will perceive 0,
no more is asked of them than to transfer to a.e°l4
potent legal emir& a power already acquiesced
and,lt3tl
them as existing in the House of Lords ;
the transfer of that power, to render less ce,° t,
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cited, less indecent, less expensive,,and less
the proceedings by which divorce is to be atts:iii
It the actions fur crim. con., the _absurb anow4
of the position of separated- wives and husbnr
the teriibls scandal of quarrels and struggles 1300
aSt,.2d in for a series of years, the oppressienotell
lam, ntable ill-usage in a multitude of cases cli3tto'
by Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, and o: her ancor
rities, appear to them afit, just, or inevitable
001
dition of things in these would be reforming,"
progressive times then let them vote against re' to
in toe tnarriige laws. But if they believe the 3'o
of ihe law on these matters to be liable I°ooi
greats abuse fur want of some established 001
and competent autho,ity and that the interProo
of the House of Lords in special and wealth-Y.: 00
in no way mends this condition of thing,
plii
toe contrary, produces the strauges anomalies,
creates C°confusion worse confounded," 06/it oil
them vote for the establishment of a CerjpeO
Divorce and refuse any longer to see the sacr
of the tea which fence in peace in our raliA
homes played-for lii;e a gamblers' stake ;---11,°010
no order, no authority ; a wild skirmish ; a oil
.souls iu toad of bodies ; and the House of PAO'
releasing a favoured few who can buy freedonaY
misery or impunity in sin. ,

I t epeAt inat Cie question now before thet-S
of Commons is not a question of the posiibllll4l
divorce, but of the inethoL; of divorce. Is the
of divorce as at present in use in England one 'tiott
satisfies just, iessonable men ? That is the Vesof
at i-sue, and let all those who are voting Oro/
change be aware that it is a change of Metttod, for
are voting for, and not a change of principle
the .principle will continu:s to be acted upon 8;011'
no change whatever of method take place ; roo
should the bill now before the Commons be to
out to-morrow, it would in no way touch tilt' Po?
of divorce assumed by the Legislature, nor P or
divorce bills passing the Lords, and marria*e'd e
der those divorce bills being legally solernlosee;
at present. Such voting would mend notinflgy'
would only be tantamount to the sentence-'
the old abuses stand."

Country Markets.

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EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MAR l:
JULY 28.
Supplies of all kinds these Last six days large. , 00;
Oat straw, from 7s Od to 93 Od per kemple of 1 6".1 to
tron ' • wheat do., 5s Od to 8s Od ; barley do.. 5'
Od. Hay from is ld to is 4d; new do., 9d to 10a!

EDINBURGH MEAL—JULY 23. ed
There were in the market today 11 sacks oatniee'oj,
weighing 2801 h imperial, which sold at 43s and

DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JULY 211 S
There were in the market to-day 10 bags of oat
barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. #a'

,
/0
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. I Second. [ cs, poi
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od I—s Oct ;
_..,3 0
Peasemeal, per ditto
...„3
Flour, new, per ditto —s Oct —s Oct
....,0
Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od s Od

DUBLIN, JULY 28. O,AI
Our corn market to-day .was poorly supplied. ;fig

irujol'
and oats were very dull, an.l currencies of
Knehanged. The business in Indian corn was ulltlt°
Some new bore appeared, quality fair, which broug
also one sample of new oats.
a
White wheat, 35, 01 co 676 6d ; red ditto, 3.1 s v „
01; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 163 6d to 25s 6d ;;/,',
ing, —s to ---8 ; oats, old, 145.61 to 17s; ditto, .I'etold
01 to —s Od ; oatmeal, 15s to 1784 d; bere, new, 9,4
04 ; rapes.- d, 28s Od to 35s per brl ; flour, n,j r
01 to 21s 04 per cwt ; Inuiau corn, 39s 04 to 40, "
480 lbs.

COAL KA R,K
Prices of Coals per ton a,

IGT.—JuLY 20.
tho close of the market
Wallsend, SO. 0
6
' Braddyll ..................
Kepier Grainge
Raisell's Hetton 'ji
tounbton .... .............
south Kelloo . ...... "l6
Hough Ha 11............ ••••16
Hartlepool nettOn lB
fees
Whitworth ............... 'l4
annwick .. . .......... •••'lB
itewart's .................. .16
Riddell .................... 'l6
.iostorth .
Ha5we11.........
108 ; sold, 70.

s. d.
North Percy Hartley ...16 0
Iforpeth West Hartley 16 9
Howard's West tlartley_

Netherton 17 0
Canfield door Butes 14 0
West Wylam 15
Bebside's Hartley l7 3
Haswell Hartley l5 0

Wallsand, Sao

Eden Main l6 6
South Hettou l7 9
Shineliffe 15 6
Hetton
Hetton Lyons Main ....15 0
_ Ships at market,

BIRTHS.

OF A SON.

11'°'

On the 27111 inst., at Elliston House, St. Boswel- ier
Ficn. Mrs. Dalrympl
nste. ribb.
On the 25th i., at Gisburno-park, the Lady
dale.
O A DAUGHTER, 01r
iogt
On the 29th inst., at 6, Stanley-crescent, ItenB
park-gardens, Mrs. Thomas H. W. Anderson. ,40
On the 29th inst., at 13,William-etrost, Lownde°
Mrs. Alfred Leggett.

MARRIED. ,ro
gr. On the 23th init., at St. Andrew's, Volborn, „vet 0
Edward Weedon, of CurAitor-street, Chancery-Geor'
Sarah Amelia, the second daughter of the hte bri
Lyall, of_Middle-row, Holborn.
icic j°oo/
On the 28th inst., at Stepney-church, Freder ,1 0{
Abbott, of Cripplegate, second son of the late Cbabtor
Abbott, of Lambeth, to Sarah Poynter, eldest divuo
John Stebbing, of Stebbing.
DIED. pdY

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On the 27th inst., Alexander Smith, Esq., ., of ileli 0,,
road, Clapham-park, aged 75. ,ro 3
On the 28th inst., John Young, jun., of 3, ,sPr2ge
corner, Minories, and 19, Coldbath-square, Lonao 0
28. vro i,
LrOu the 25th inst., at East Hayes, the Rev. J• Br
-11',

,14.13, tho incumbent of'Triuity-Church, CI-
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aged 62. Vil lli°
On the 25th inst., at Chenies, Backs, the Rev* of
Lewis, aged , 8. EA"'
On the 24th inst., John Benjamin Humfrel, 0
Kibworth Hall, Leicestershi,e,,aged 63. ~,,,}lcill'
On the 26th inst., at Brixton, Lieut. John .01 li'
Bombay Europeans, aged 28. ': hotuAg
T
On the 22d inst., at his Villa, near Florence. ea 64,
Smith, Esq., late of Bolton-street, Piccadilly, a 8

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of Middlesex, Thursday, July &`O, 1857.