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respe.lt to these classes might not counterbalance any advan-
tages which the higher orders derived from it. Upon those
three grounds, then—first, that these marriages wore not
prohibited by Scripture ; secondly, that they were not
opposed to the ordinances of the Church, inasmuch as these
rested on moral grounds, and that the permission of such
marriages would not be productive of half the moral incon-
n'enc which existed under the present law—he gave his c 0..-
dial support to the Bill of the Noble Lord. After the best
consideration he could give the subject, the evils that were
alleged might result to society, to morality and religion, he
came to the conclusion tl.at he ought to vote for the Pill, and
he hoped the House wu,uld adopt the measure.7-(Hear, bear.)
Mr. CURTEIS said he would offer a few observations on
the subject. He differed from the Right Hon. the Member
for Oxford, because he (Mr. C.) believed the weight of Scrip-
ture evidence was in favour of the Bill of the
Noble Lord, he alluded more particularly to that text
in which the " brother " was directed "to raise
up seed by the wife's sister." He did not think there was any
thing like impurity in the case, and he thought that the law
as it stood at present was likely to be productive of more jai-
pyre results. He also differed from the Hon. Member for
Oxford when he stated that the sister-in-law should be looked
on in the same light ' with the sister. Ile (Mr. C. )
knew a great many persons who did not look on
the sister-in-law and his sister in the same light.
But whatever might be the difference of ol inion on the subject
in dispute, he thought they might at least allow the Bill to be
introduced, and they could afterwards discuss its provis.4ons in
detail. He thought they should not reuse to allow any Bill to
be brought in which was not of a very outrageous character ;
and he should therefore vote in favour of the motion of the Noble
Lord.

Mr. C. BULLER said that the question then under the
consideration of the House was one undoubtedly which
deeply affected the happiness of many, and embraced considera-
tions of the highest :importance. Ile should, however, avoid
discussing the theological part of the question ; and he would
consider it merely on the ground of national expediency. The
main evidence against the Bill was founded on its alleged
tendency to disturb domestic rela ions, by allowing a man
to look on:the sister of his wife as a person with whom he might
himself become one day connected. That appeared to him to
be the strongest objection which could be urged against the Bill
of the Noble Lord. It certainly was desirable that such a feel-
ing as that to which he had alluded should be discouraged by all
reasonable means ; and he confessed that if the Bill were
merely to affect the higher classes of society, he thought that
argument would be a sufficient ground for its rejection.
But the objection in question yielded to those great consieera-
tions of expediency and of justice which affected the middle
and lower classes, and which induced him to lay down a diffe-
rent rule in their regard. Considerations of paramount im-
portance here claimed their attention. It appeared to him of
the utmost importance, that they should allow the sister of a
deceased wife to become the step-mother of her children, in
order that they might receive that motherly care which they
had a right to expect from one who was bound to them by the
Dearest ties.— ( Hear, hear.) When the wife of a poor man
died, leaving child: en, what s. ranger would extend to them
that care which they stood in need of? Why no woman would
do it without being paid for her trouble ; and it was well known
that among the poorer classes the difficulty of providing for
their own children, superseded all consideration of the
wants of the children of another, except in the case
of one who was bound to them by the ties of relationship. In
point of fact, when a cottager's wife died, no stranger could be
found to take care of them, unless the sister of the deceased
wife. It was in that way they were frequently provided for; it
was the commonest thing that could happen, and that was the
origin of most of those marriages which were exceed-
ingly frequent, not merely among the profligate, but
among the most industrious of the working classes. That was
a case which often existed, and which it was the duty of the
Legislature to provide for. Now, what would be the conse-
quence of a law which prohibited marriages in such cases.
The consequence would be that parties plated in such a situa-
tion to each other would dispense with marriage, and if they
framed their law strictly, they would not prevent the inter-
course of those parties, but they would prevent their marriage
from taking place with the sanction of the Church and of the :avv.
In his opinion it would be unwise of the Legislature to require
more preliminary conditions in cases of marriage than were
justified by indispensible necessity. By creating prohibitions,
which would be sure to be neglected in many eases, they would
not merely cast a stigma on those who married contrary to the
law, but if the general feeling was one way and the law the
other, the result was that communication between the parties
took place, and the evil consequences did not fall upon those
parties but upon their innocent children, and that afterwards
became a fruitful source of litigation. He said he did i.ot wish
to discuss the religious part of the subject ; and it appeared to
him that the moment there was a doubt or a difference of opi-
nion as to the religious state of a question, then it was unwise
to make that House the arbiter of religious controversies. Now
there was no unanimity of opinion upon the present subject.
All Christians did not hold their marriages in abhorrence ; and
he even believed that the greater part of Christendom deemed
them to be perfectly lawful.—(Hear.) It appeared to him to
be very improper in a country where religious t leration was
the law, to make the cannons or rules of one Church rules for
the whole population. Let them look in the first instance on
the hardship of the present law with regard to Roman
Catholics. These marriages were prohibited by the Roman
Catholic Church, but that prohibition might be relaxed by the
Pope, and after a dispensation from him had been obtained,
Roman Catholics
_held these marriages to be lawful. By the
existing Claw of the country, however, they were illegal, and
that was a grievance of which Roman Catholics were entitled to
complain. It was the same with Dissenters. They had no
right to make the discipline of the Church of England binding
upon those who were not members of that Church. Let the
Church discourage these marriages if they. thought them
improper: but let not the legislature violate by any
enactment of theirs the principle of religious toleration.
It seemed to him to be trifling with the sanctity of rnarriage,
and with the general feelings of European countries upon the
subject, to allow, if they could possibly avoid it, any discre-
pancy between the law of marriage in different countries. It
was very desirable, when persons were continually going abroad,
to avoid discrepancy ; and though that might not be conclu-
sive, it would at least form one element in the grounds of their
decision. If they were to continue the laws prohibiting these
marriages, that law would be greatly in danger, from the mere
fact than the general feeling of European countries, and of
America, was against such a law. People would not, and
could not, be easily persuaded to look with horror upon a mar-
riage in England, which was perfectly proper in. all foreign
countries, Protestant even* more titan Catholic. He thought it
very advisable for another reason to make no unneceesary pro-
hibition: The most effectual way to break down the barriers to
still closer alliances was, perhaps, to make it the same offence
for a man to marry his wife's sister as to marry his oven sister.
By prohibiting these marriages they ran the risk of loosening
those bartiers. The Hon. Baronet, the Member for Oxford,
had exclaimed with great horror, " Why this is only the first
step—you take seven years to bring forward a proposal to marry
a man's sister, and in seven years more you will propose that a
man should marry his sister." When the Catholic Church
prohibited marriages among persons who were related in the
tenth degree; when there was not a Royal family in England
who could marry into another without the Pope's
dispensation ; when there was a law in this country
by which a man's marriage was annulled because
he had stood godmother to his wife's cousin.—(Great
laughter.) No, they did not go quite so far as that—it was a
man's godfather—(Continued laughter)—would the lion.
Member have come forward when this system was proposed to
be altered, and said, " Where will you stop ?" You will be-
gin with allowing a man to marry his cousin and end by al-
lowing him to marry his grandmother."—(Laughter.) Such
an argument was perfectly futile. The change in this case,
as in every other, would stop just where convenience and
good sense should dictate; and be believed that if they granted
this permission it would not lead to any improper encroach-
ment.—( Hear, hear.) He must say that these who came for-
ward with this proposal, instead of deserving obloquy and re-
proach, deserved to be listened to with serious attention by the
Legislature. After all, in ninety-nine cases out of
an hundred, these marriages, where they occurred, arose
out of the most justifiable feelings. Ptobably the circum-
stances were those which the Legislature would desire to pro-
vide for. In the first place there was the quality. of affinity ;
in the second place, there was the desire that marriages should
be performed with a full knowledge of the characters of the
different parties, each knowing the other's faults and virtues,
and therefore entering into the marriage state w th a full
knowledge of each other's characters. lie would ask, under
what circumstances could marriage be performed with a fu ler
knowledge of character—under what circumstances the affec-
tions would be likely to flow in a purer and more refined
course ?—( Hear, hear.) ' The source of a. taeliment was here
no idle passion, no heyday of blood ; the probahtlity at least
was that it arose from a common sympathy with a fond be-
loved object, and that the tie which bound them to the living
was that of a common affection towards those who were the
common objects of their care.—(Cheers.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was
anxious to offer a few observations on the question before the
House. Ile thought that the Hon. Member who had just sat
down Lad used some of the strongest arguments which could
be used against the measure which he had advocated.--( Hear,
hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had opened his rpeech by saying
that, if the question referred to the higher orders alone—that if
it was now the question, whether a man in the higher,ranks of
life, in a satiation of ease and comfort, should or should not be
permitted to marry the sister of his deceased wife, he would in
that case rather be disposed to oppose the marriages. But the
lion. Member said that his views of the law were for Med from
its elf,eis upon the lower orders of society. Now he
(the Chancellow of the Exchequer) could not consent
with the Hon. Gentleman to place the moral feelings of the
higher and lower orders of society upon a different level. He
had sufficient knowledge of the lower nrd,rs of society to
know that they were as strongly actuated by moral feelings in
the several relationships of lit e, as persons the most exalted in
rank and station.—( Hear, hear.) Arid if the Hon. Gentleman
thought that it would he expedient to prohibit marriages of
that description in the higher orders, he believed he
could almost satisfy him that the necessity for the prohibition
was stronger in those lower orders of society for whose bene-
fit, he said, he should support the measure Now the objection
which the [lon. and Learned Gentleman entertained with re-
spect to marriages of this kind was confined to cases where there
was a general freedom of intercourse. He said that the general
intercourse which existed in flue higher orders of society mule
it perhaps desirable that the prohibition should be maintained.
But surely the lion. Gentleman must admit that in the lower
orders of society there were many more occasions of this fami-
liar intercourse ; that the lower orders were confined within
narrower limits ; that they were more con-tantly associated
one with another ; and that if in the lower orders the attention
of the husband to the sister of his wife might create family
dissension, so much more in the lower orders of society would
the same attention excite the same feeling, because the oppor-
tunities of intercourse would be so much greater, and the
difficulties of caution and watchfulness , would be increased in
proportion to the poverty of the individual.—( Hear, heir. )
He could not, therefore, acquiesce in the views of the Hon.
Gentleman, that the measure was expedient with reference to
the interests of the lower orders. He differed also materially in
point of fact with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The
Hon. Gentleman spoke of these marriages as if they were a
common rule of society amongst the lower orders, for whose
care he wished to provide. Now be (the Chancellor of the,
Exchequer) had certainly had some experience in a very ex-
tensive rural neighbourhood, and he could say with truth, that
he knew no instance, in a very extensive rural population with
which he was personally acquainted, in which a marriage of
that description had taken place, or in which the feelings of an
individual were favourable to such marriages.—(Hear, hear.)
lie admitted that the view of the Hon. Gentleman derived
weight from a petition which had been presented to the House
signed by the parochial clergy. But when the Honourable
Gentleman assumed that that petition expressed the views
of the great body of the parochial clergy of this country, he
thought he gave far more weight to that petition than either
the numbers of those by whom it was signed in the detri t
from which it came, entitled him to give to it. He believed
that that petition came entirely from the clergy within a very
limited district ; he .had understood that it was signed by
clergymen within the dLocese of Norwich, and it could not
therefore be considered as an indication of the general feel-
ings of the country upon this subject. For' himself, having
had extensive communication with the parochial clergy, he
couldlpersons most eminent in character, and
m opinions thatpinio the
nss‘ere entitled to the greatest weight,
on
these marriages objectionable, not merely
ciossied say
ered
as affecting the general interests of society, but on
higher grounds, which he would forbear to state, from an
unwillingness to make that House the arena of theological
discussion. The Hon. Gentleman had defended marriages of
that description on the ground that whiht they were permitted

in foreign countries it was not desirable to have a different
rule in this ; that parties who wished to contract them went
abroad for th purpose, and that a vast quantity of litigation
was the result. The Hon. Gentleman told them that in a
Roman Catholic country a man was allowed, on the autho-
rity of the Church, to marry the sister of his deceased wife.
But the Hon. Gentleman must not stop there. There were
instances in which even closer alliances were permitted ;
and, in order to be consistent, the Honourable Gentleman
must be prepared to contend that these also should be per-
mitted on the same ground. The effect of adopting that prin-
ciple would be to throw the whole system of marriage into
confusion, and to interfere with the whole state of ssmety.—
( Hear.) He could not think that the measure before the
House was one which was likely to confer benefit upon the
country. He thought that even the discussion of the subject
was likely to be attended with evil consequences. The argu-
ments used would throw a degree of doubt upon the limits
which were hitherto considered to be distinct y defined. He
believed, amongst other things which contributed mainly to
the happiness of the married life, was the knowledge that
it was impossible to dissolve the tie by which persons
were bound ; and he believed that in the same way the happi-
ness of domestic seciety depended mainly upon the convietios
of the impossibility of a matrimonial connexion between the
male and female members of the family within limited the.
grees cf relatiorehiP. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
doubted whether the mere discussion of the question would
not tend to unsettle the minds of people—let loose passions
that had been previously Milled, and breed disunion where
harmony had existed. But if the subject was thus materially
affected by discussion, how much greater would it,neccssarily
be by legislation? He believed great evil had resulted from the
legislation of 1835 upon the subject. He believed it would be
found that marriages between persons of this relationship were
extremely limited before the Bill of 1835. The cases that then
occurred were rare exceptions, and excited observation among
persons generally. But so soon as Parliament ga e out that
they were prepared to legalise those irregular marriages which
had previously taken place, that number had increased ten-fold,
and persons argued in this manner—if Parliament, when we
have committed an offence, instead of letting us feel the punish-
ment due to this offence interpose to accommodate the law to
the offenders, why surely, if it can effect this, let us seek to make
it more general in society, and see if those marriages
can be extended in a far greater degree, and have our pas-
sions gratified in every respect, Parliament will step in to
legalise what we, in the first instance, have illegally accom-
plished. That the House might be assured would be the feeling
which would operate in this instance.' It was impossible to
say, when the doors were once opened, how far many would
carry the vitiation of the law. Men would argue that a
woman might marry her deceased husband's brother. There
could be no eos:ible distinction between such a case and the
case under eons. irration.
Lord F. EGE:ITON here made some observations in a low
tone of voice, which did not reach the gallery.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER went on to
say that he was not aware, as he had just intimated, that
his Noble Friend intended to make the question a part of his
Bill. But even if Parliament was not prepared to go the
length which many parties required, yrt they would bear the
es it of unsettlir g :he minds of men and women oo this point,
and by that unsettlement, of producing great domestic disunion
and unhappiness. With respect to other topics adverted to by
the Hon. Gentleman relative to the introduction of a wife's
sister as the step-mother of the children, the Hon. Gentleman
had, in lansuage much calculated to rouse the feelings of those
who heard him, stated that there was nothing which could be so
suitable or proper, or likely to raise every motive calculated to
benefit the children, than the introduction of such a person
in the capacity of step mother. He admitted to the Ho-
nourable Gentleman, that as far as the children were concerned,
probably 'no relation would take charge of the children with
so much advantage to them as would the sister of their deceased
mother ; but he did not think that, in order to secure that
object, it was necessary or expedient to legalise such mar-
riages. The Hon. Gentleman had stated numerous cases in
which marriages of this kind had taken place, but he had not
adverted to cases still more numerous, in which sisters would
take charge of the family without the least idea of marriage
at all. What object would be effected by a measure of this
kind? From the moment they passed a law enacting that
the husband could marry the sister of his wife,
they effectually prevented the sister from directing
his attention to cherish the bereaved children. Living in a
state of society in which great freedom prevailed, and family
intercourse formed one of the greatest luxuries of life, the forms
and feelings of society did not permit that a man and wo van of
a certain age, who were capable of being united in marriage,
should live together without availing themselves of the liberty
which this law would afford them. With respect to the advan-
tages thus derivable to the children, in being thus con-
signed to their mother's sister, he must say that, on
that ground alone, he did think the operation of the
measure would mot entail benefit upon the children.
He did not advert to the consequences which the Right Hon.
Gentleman expressed as likely to result from the legal impedi-
ments to these marriages, or the litigation which they might
produce, if parties who meant to contract unions made them
according to the existing law of the land, aid agreeable to
generally received opinions as to what was the strict law upon
the subject, and if parties were content to abide by the r ule
by which they ought to be guided, they would get rid of that
evil likely to result from marriages improperly contracted.
But if they were prepared to legalise marriages which had
previously taken place, contrary to the law of the land,
without sufficient cause, they were opening a door to
the constant recurrence of discussion on this subject ;
they would be but creating great uncertainty in the law of
marriage, and unsettling principles, by doing which they
would ultimately give a fatal blow to domestic comfort and the
enjoyment of happiness.
Mr. BROTIIERTON said that it was only since the year
1835 that these marriages had been declared illegal.—(011, oh,
and Hear, hear.) Previous to that, when those marriages
were voidable but not void, he remembered that there was a
very strong feeling upon the subject at the time he referred to ;
and when the Bill was in Committee the law was left by that
Committee exactly as they had found it, namely, that those
marriages should continue voidable, but r.ot void. Subsequently,
on bringing up the Report, a clause was inserted
declaring those marriages void, but some one who
was interested in the question got the Bill altered
in the House of Lords, so that the effect of the Bill, as then
amended and passed Into law, was that those marriages should
be pronounced void after the passing of the Act. What was
the consequence? Sergeant Tallourd, on the very night on•
which the Bill received the Royal assent, moved in the House
for its repeal. He had seen many respectable parties from
Manchester and its neighbourhood since that time, and he
knew that marriages hal taken place among a respectable class
of society, that must now be conaidered void. He had been
told that among the labouring classes such marriages were very
frequent. Though they may be argued about on the ground of
inexpediency, whether they might ha considered calculated to
do injury or not ; yet there was a very general impressii n that
marriages of this kit al were neither unlawful nor immoral. As
Parliament, therefore, had declared such marriages leg .1 in
1835, it could do so again. It had been contended on the
authority of the New Testament, that even recond marriages
were improper, and that St. Paul, in speaking against matri-
mony, only spoke of second marriages. Yet the Apostles
themselves were married, for " P. tcr's wife's mother" was ex-
pressly mentioned, showing that he was married at all events.
It might be proved that second marriages were inexpedient, on
the same kind of arguments brought against the marriages
under discussion, and for these reasons he was disposed not to
.oppose the present Bill.

*Mr. V. SMITH said he wished to address a few words
to the House on a subject which had at least the merit of no.
velty. One reason that induced him to give his vote against
the proposition was the time at which it was made. He
did think, that considering the security the Howe had in the
character of the Noble Lord, (the Secretary for Ireland) from
his high character, and the ample consideration he had given
to this question, as well as the poiition he occupied in '
that House, not only from his rank and the large
constituency he represented, but from the course
he had pursued in the House, showing that strong party at-
tachments, and talents of no ordinary kind, might be made,
perfectly consistent with the most coned atory demeanour to-
wards all parties in that House—he did think it was due to
him to have allowed him to introduce his Bill. Th.,t per-
mission he considered had been denied him when the adjourn-
ment took place ; and, therefore, on the present occasion he felt
obliged to give his vote against the Bill. He should not enter
into the religious considerations connected with the question— 1
they had been very properly avoided, for if there
were religious objections to such unions, no I isv that
could be passed would obviate them. In this respect every
man must be left to be guided by his own conviction. What-
ever law might be passed, he should confine himself solely to
the inconvenience and inexpediency of these marriages. The
lion. Member for Liskeard had made an able speech on the
question, but he thought it told rather against the Bill for
which he intended to vote, than in its favour. The Hon.
Member had considered that if the question were confined ex-
clusively to the upper classes it would be different; but with
regard to the working classes, among them a widower could find
no person so well fitted to take care of his children as his
wife's sistet. He differed with the Hon. Member in his view of
the question in reference to the upper and working classes.
Among the working classes, it was a much simpler pooceeding for
a sister of a deceased wife to live with the husband, without any
impropriety than among the higher classes. The laws they might
carry in that House, on such subjects, were cllculated to have a
very great effect on the morals of society. Fiscal laws might be
avoided by those determined to do so; in political legislation also,
laws might be obstructed by those who were disposed
to do so; but with respect to laws bearing on
morals, the case was different;- persons were not unapt to take
their moral tone from the laws passed by that House. They
were called on to consider the views prevailing on this question
among society. It was stated that there was a very strong feeling
in favour of such a law among the people. Now he meant to say,
that if such a feeling existed, he was perfectly ignorant of it.
When they were called on to look at the distress of the persons
who were agitating this question, he thought that they had no
great call on their sympathies. Who were they ? Who must they
be?—(hear.) He should be sorry to treat the question with
anything that had the appearance of ridicule—(Hear, hear)
towards the feelings of any portion of his fellow-countrymen. But
he supposed the persons who were agitating this question were a
number of mature gentlemen who were widowers, and anxious to
marry their deceased wife's sister. He must say that the agita-
tion of such a question by such a body of men need not necessarily
excite the sympathy which the situation of any other sort of dis-
tressed persons would do. He believed, with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, that many persons who had lost their wince
were not unwilling to permit their wife's sister to live in
their house, and to take care of their children. The moment they
passed a law permitting these parties to marry, there was not one of
thOse couples now living together in a perfectly harmless and re-
liectable manner, who would not feel called on by the state of
society in the country districts of England, immediately to marry.
—(Hear, hear.) This would be a very great inconvenience, as
there might be numerous cases in which persons were willing to
live together, but who would yet be extremely unwilling to in-
crease their expenses by a family, or become connected
by marriage. He knew this was a delicate subject to touch on ;
he was not such a master of language, but some expression might
escape hive, which might excite their ridicule ; but he hoped
Hon. Gentlemen would believe that tie was endeavouring to speak
seriously, and not think that he had any intention of exciting
mirth.—(Hear, hear.) The principal purpose of this Bill was
founded on an assumption that, he was unwilling to allow, namely,
that it was impossible for affection to exist between the sexes with-
out marriage. It assumed that it was utterly impossible
for a widower to live with the sister .of a deceased wife, without
some improper connexion. He admitted the dangerous tendency
of placing your g persons to lis e together in the same house, but he
did lad think the objection applied to cases of this kind. He
thought that in these cases the law might create the very feeling
they wish• d to avoid.—(Hear.) He did not admit the impossibility,
as stated by the Hon. Member for Liskeard, of placing a commerce
of love between a widower and his deceased wife's sister, on the
same footing as that from which they must all recoil with horror.
He should give his vote against the Bill:
Mr. O'CONNELL said, if it had been proved that this BM was
required by the state of society among the poorer classes of this
country, it certainly was not demanded by anything that occurred
among the Catholics of Ireland. This Bill was not wanted by the
Catholic population of Ireland. • He did not oppose the Bill be-
cause those marriages were limited by the law of the Church. He
had heard a good deal of theology that evening, and some of it was
rather indifferent. His Hon. Friend (the Member for Si ford)
a slight mistake, for he (Mr. O'Connell) could assure
hadhcru
that if the Anglican Clergy wished to be reconciled to Mother
they might hold their livings without being obliged to part
withrintcth a:ir wives. But he (Mr, O'Connell) would oppose the Bill
because lie was persuaded that it would not promote domestic mo.
relit), or happiness.
Lord ASHLEY sad the Hon! and Learned Member for Ids.

keard referred, in' support of the Bill, to the practice of a great
part of Christendom, but particularly of Protestant Europe. In
this reference be was unfortunate, for the fact was, that so lightly
was the marriage tie, in consequence of this practice, held in Ger.
many, that all thinking men were now of opinion that morals
could only be maintained by a return •to the old common law.

But he had quoted a more important example still. Under the
law of 1792, passed in France in the worst times of the Republic,
the ecclesiastical and canon law were abolished, and the marriages
of all the degrees theretofore prohibited were allowed, except in
the cases of uterine brothers and sisters. But when this part of
the Code of Napoleon was discussed in the Council of State, in

ISO 4, when, besides the First Consul, demic;,Cambactre, ScYes,
and other able men were present, it was argued that the mo-
tives of affection and regard for children, seldom led to'
the marriages of brothers and sisters-in-law ; that on the
contrary, the relaxation often led to indecent practices, and the
disturbances of families, and afterwards of divorces ; therefore, the
First Consul, and tie majority of the Council, enacted,
that the
marriages of uncles and nieces, or of aunts and nephews, should
be prohibited, but with the power of dispensation; but that the
marriages of brothers and sisters-in-law should he prohibited, with.
out any power whatever to grant a dispensation.(Hear, hear.)
This was done altogether on a principle of social order and stabi.
lity, and without any reference to religion. Let tl'e experience of
those able men guide us now. If the Bill of the Noble Lord was
passed the limitations could not stop where he had proposed them.
Even his schedule proposed to reduce the prohibited' degrees from
30 to 28. But now the line of demarcation was well defined ;
and wishing to keep it so for the most important, moral, and social
reasons, he (Lord A.) would oppose the Bill of his Noble Friend.
He thought that on a matter of such impor,ance, they' shout 1
wait until they heard the deep and unalterable opinion of the public.
He was sure that the great body of the Clergy were opposed to
the change—( Hear, hear)—and that if the opinions of the people
were taken by poll, they would also be found equally hostile to it.
He was sure that if the sense of the women, who were the best
judges of what was conducive to social happiness, and to the moral
dignity of mankind, had been taken, the House would never have
heard of this Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
Mr. CHARLES WO'D Hoaght that the Noble Lord who
last addressed the House was incorrect in stating that this Bill
would be an innovation. upon the ancient laws of this country ;
on the contrary the Bill of Lord Lyndhurst in 1835 was an inno.
vasion of the ancient law of England, by which such marriages
were not void but voidable. lie believed that under the
previous law those marriages were by eo means uncommon amongst
all classes of society; and he believed, from what he had learned,
upon very good authority, that Lord Lyndhurst's Bill had not had
any effect in checking those marriages. That Bill was passed with
little or no discussion, and upon the understanding that the subject
would be reconsidered the next Session. In the French Council of
State, in 1804, the opinions which the Noble Lord had quoted,
rested entirely upon the existing facility of divorce in Franee. That
facility did not exist in this country, and he hoped it never would.
—( Hear, hear.) He thought it was perfectly competent to that
House to restore the law to the state in which it was before
1835, and he would support the Bill.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman was under misapprehension as to the effect of the statute
of 1235, for those marriages were always illegal, and prohibited by
the laws of this kingdom, and expressly declared
so by the statute in the reign of Henry the Eighth. The Bill in
1835 had no particular reference to the marriages now under cons!.
deration, but referred generally tethose marriages which the Civil
Courts would not declare void after the death of the parties, if the
F.celesiae ical Courts had not pronounced them illegal during the
life time of the parties. In these were included themartiage of the
father and daughter, the brother and sister, the uncle and niece.
The state of the law rendered it easy for either of the parties du-
ring life-time to void the marriage, and to bastardize the children if
it served any selfish purpose; and it opened a way for the ex.
tertion of money under a threat of procuring the voidance
of the marriage. Was that a state of the law which
ought to be allowed to exist ?—(Hear, hear, hear.) Was it not
better at once to declare by a statute that such marriages were
void ?—(Hear.) The Bill, therefore, was no innovation of the
law, and he believed it was entirely consonant to the moral feelings
of the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) As for the argu-
ment that the sister of a deceased wife was the most likely to taka
an interest in the children and to fill the place of a mother, it was
his opinion that the inducement to be so would be taken away if
she were made a stepmother.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore thought
it his duty to vote against the introduction of the present Bill.
There was one part of the speech of the Hon. and Learned Member
for Liskeard to which he had forgotten to refer. The Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had adverted to persons quitting this country
to contract those marriages. Now by the law cf Scotland these
marriages had always been illegal; that had always been the case
in that country.
Mr. C. BULLER—Parties frequently go to Scotland to con.
tract these marriages.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL believed that by the law of Scot-
land these marriages had alwayr been deethed incestuous, illegal
and void. He had heard no argument to induce him to think that
these marriages ought to be permitted, and therefore he should
vote against the motion of the Noble Lord.

Mr. WA KLEY thought it could not be very gratifying to the
Hon. Member for Liskeard to hear the effect which his speech had
produced on the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who had
just sat down. He (Mr. Wakley), however, considered the speech
of the Hon. Member for Li:keard to be an eloquent and align.
mentative speech.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Wakley) was
surprised to hear where the Noble Lord opposite had been
to find mattirials for his argument against the Bill before the House.
What J • was the Noble Lord obliged to go to the council of France
immediately after the Revolution. He hoped that, after this, revo
lutions would not be considered su:h terribly fiightful things to the
aristocracy of this country.—(Cries of " Oh, oh, and laughter.")
The Noble Lord had been obliged to have recourse to the council
of France under Napoleort.—(Cries of " Question, question.") He
(Mr. Wakley) dreW this inference from the conduct of the Noble
Lord, that he could findi nothing English to support the views
which.he entertained. The Learned Sol.-Gen. had alluded to the
Bill of 1835 ; now be (Mr. Wakley) knew that at the time that
that Bill was introduced there was a general opinion in the House
and the country that that Bill had been brought up for
the special purpose of relieving a Noble Lord from
a very awkward situation in which he found himself plaped.
Such was the opinion of • the country at the present
moment, and he (Mr. Wakley) believed that it was true.
He was surprised at the manner in which Hon. Members,
who were opposed to this Bill. had treated the; characters of
English women. How degraded must be the opinion
entertained of the characters of English women.—(Hear, hear.)
Why, it appeared that they considered that when the wife's sister
lived with the husband, he could do with her what he pleased—
(Cheers and cries of " No, no ")—that she had no virtue, no firm.
ness of mind, no power of resisting importunities.—(Cheers, and
cries of " No, no.") If that were not so, why did they pursue the
course they were pursuing, what became of their arguments if
they did not believe such to be the case. 'But he would have Hon.
Gentlemen to know that English women were as virtuous, as
high minded, and as able to resist improper importuni.
ties .as any under the sun.—(Hear, hear.) It was
the duty of those who sought to restrict the liberties
of the subject to show that the necessity for such restriction ex-
isted. Ile believed no such necessity existed in the present in-
stance, and, therefore, he should support the Bill of the Noble Lord.
Mr. HARDY would remind the Hon. Member for Finsbury
that there was such a thing as the argument afortoiri, and in his
(Mr. llardy's) opinion, the argument of the Noble Lord the Mem-
ber for Dorchester, went to show, that if France, after having
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was right in correcting a mis.
take which he (Lord F. Egerton) made in his speech in bringing
forward this motion, in which he (Lord F. Egerton) stated that
these marriages had never before been prohibited by Statute law.
He felt the argument of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who
said it was inconvenient to meet this question, and he LLord F.
Egerton) was perfectly aware of that, but he did not care whether
the supporter of the Bill were Henry the Eighth or Lord
Lyndhurst.—(Much laughter.) With regard to Prussia, it
was not consistent wills his desire to institute any Com.
parison between that country and this, or any other country;
but he thought it would be much better if they would con-
form to the common law with respect to their marriages. By the
Code Napoleon, the wife's sister was prohibited from marrying
under certain restrictions, but a dispensation could be granted on
application to the Sovereign himself. He hoped tha t some measure
would be passed to provide for the evils complained of. In Scotland,
the feeling was, that a marriage with the wife's sister:ought to be
allowed (as we understood.) The lion. Member for Oxford had
founded his opposition to this measure mainly on the practices o
the early Church, and had quoted Bassil as his authority f
but his (Lord Francis Egerton's) impression was that the
authority had not borne out his argument.—(Hear, hear.)
he only called upon the House to give their unbiassed consideration
and decision to the question—he merely wished them to 'produce
their verdict unbiassed, if even it was against his proposition, but
If it was so, he would lama of Hon. Gentlemen to consider the
question, and pronounce their decision as the Foreman of a Jury
gave in their verdict, for it was a subject of the most vital import-
ance, and the decision of it would be the death warrant of the peace
and happiness of many families in the country.—(Hear, hear.)
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided. The numbers were—

For ►eave to bring in the Bill
Against it
Majority --23
MURDER OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

Mr. COLVILLE rose to move for a return of the number of
convictions for the murder of illegitimate children in England and
Wales, in each of the years from 189.8 to 1841, both inclusive ;
distinguishing the counties in which such murders have been com-
mitted :—And, similar return cf the number of convictiwis for
the conceal ilent of the birth of illegitimate children. '
Mr. WAKLEY thought no return could be moved for which
would give more indirect and unsatisfactory information than this.
The number of convictions for murder would not show 1-50th of
the illegitimate children destroyed in this country. As the
Hon. Gentleman's object was to ascertain the number of illegiti-
mate children destroyed, be hoped be would withdraw his motion.
It would only tend to deceive himself and the House.
Mr. COLVILE consented to withdraw his motion.
TRANSFER OF LICENSES.

On the motion of Captain ROUS, the House then resolved itself
into Committee, to consider of a Bill for the transfer of licenses
and regulation of public-houses.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
The House then resumed, and the Bill was read a first time.
Mr. C. POWELL moved for a return of all applications made
desircus of un-
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2 Will. IV, c. 57, and the number and names of Commissions
issued in conformity therewith by the Lord Lieutenant or other
Chief Governor of Ireland.—Agreed to.
In the absence of Mr. Reddington,
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL moved for a copy of the letter of Mr.
Lucas, Under Secretary for Ireland, to the Secretary of the Royal
Dublin Society, stating that the Lord Lieutenant had authorised
au advance of money to that Society, to be repaid, on the money
being voted by Parliament; and also, return stating in what parti.
culars the recommendations of the Committee of this House in
336, respecting that Society, have been complied with. Agreed to.
The House then adjourned at a few minutes to One o'Clock.

E POLIC
INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE,
fa deceased per
the public. The.
Justice-room was yesterday attended by a great number
of commercial men and others, who expected that some of the
details connected with the case introduced by Sir Peter Laurie
to the notice of the Lord Mayor on the preceling day, on the
subjecta promissory
ofan
statement, made public at the suggestion of Sir Peter Laurie
had evidently excited the greatest curiosity. ,
The case is briefly as follows .—Mr. King and Mr. Tisdell,
alleged
note, forge
wouldry
be signature
exposed
t
the executors to the will of Mrs. Ann Waldron, represented
that Mr. Melton, a solicitor, had, after the death of Mrs. W:-.1-
dron, applied to them for paymeot of a !proniissory note, of
which tt • foll4wing is a copy:—
" £39 4s. ~ London, 15th May, to 1.
" Eight. months after date, I promise to pay to Mr. William
Pidding, * order, the sum of thirty-nine pounds four shillings,
for value received. " ANN WALDRON.
" Payable No. 7, Hebbos-heath. terrace, Limehouse.
" Endorsed W. Pidding, J• Sharpe, G. Howell."
The executors having resisted the demand, in the Confident
belief that the instrument was a forgery, proceedings were
taken by Mr. Melton, who informed therici that he was em-
ployed by Mr. Thompson to recover the amount, and the venue
was laid in Lewes.
A long conversation ensued between the Magistrates and the
pa. t'es interested, but it possessed no public interest, and the
inquiry was postponed till a future day.

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HER MAJESTY'S MAJESTY'S LEVEE.
The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at St. James's
Palace, which was very Numerously attended. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert and the Royal suite arrived from Bucking-
ham Palace in four State carriages, escorted by a party of
the Life Guards. The Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,
and the Masters of the Horse, and also the Groom of the
Stole to Prince Albert, received her Majesty and his Royal
Highness, and conducted them to the Royal Closet. The
Royal suite included the Countess of Charlemont and the
Countess of Dunmore, Ladies in Waiting; Viscount Hawarden,
Lord in Waiting ; Lord Colville, Lord in Waiting on his Royal
Highness ; Sir Frederick Stavin, Grocs in Waiting on the
Queen ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting; Sir Edward
Bowater, Equerry to his Royal Highness ; Hon. Mr. Byng,
and Mr. Wemyss, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to Sir Robert Peel, the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Field Officer in Waiting.
'I heir Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambi idge and Prince
George, attended by Sir James Reynett, were present at the
Levee.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke
and Prince George of Cambridge,
.and attended by the Mi-
nisters and Officers of State, having entered the Thi-one
loom, the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were first in•
troduced.

In the Foreign Diplomatic Circle the following Presentations
to the Queen took Voce :
By the French Ambassa'or, Monsieur Pageot, Lite Charge
d'Affaires of France at the Court of Madrid.

By the Russian Minister, Le Capitain Istomin, de It Marine
Imperiale.
By the Hano rerian Minister, Mr. Hupeden, Counsellor de
la Cour et Sceretaire, General du Ministere de Commerce de
S. J. le Roi de Hanovre, and Lieutenant W. H. Gundell, of
the Hanoverian Light Infantry.
By the Grecian Meister, M. Phocion Roque, Secretary of
Legation.

By the Prussian Minister, le Baron Charles de Canity, Se-
cretary of the Legation; Monsieur F. Schreiber, Prussian
Dragoon Guards ; and Monsieur W. T. Empsome ; Lieute-
nant de las Garde Landwehr.

By the Spanish Minister, M. Emilie Sancho, on of the
Minister.

By the Danish Minister, Baron de Brockdorff Gentelhomme
de la Chambre, Secretary of the Legation ; Mr. Wilkins,
Gouverneur des possessions Danoises sur la cote de Guinee ;
and Mons. Carstensen, Capitaine et Consciller du Gouverne-
ment des possessions Danoises sur la cote de Guince.
By the Austrian Minister, Count Anthony Esterhazy, At-
tache to the Embassy.
There were also present of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps—
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador; M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister ; and Mr. Charles Drouet, Secretary of
Legation ; Mr. Moreno, Buenos Ayrian Minister ; Baron de
Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Mons. I edel, the Netherlands
Minister; and Baron Bentinck, Secretary of Legation; Count
Pollon, Sardinian Minister; and Count Revel, Secretary of
Legation; Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister ; M.
Lobo de Moira, Secretary of Legation ; and M. Antonio
Valdez, Attache to the Legation ; Baron Brunow, Russian
Minister; and Mr. tie Berg, Conseiller of Legation ;
General Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan .Minister, and M. G.
Causfari, Secretary of Legation ; Count Kihransenge, the
Hanoverian Minister; Mr. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister ;
Monsieur Bunsen, the Prussian Minister; Count Reventlow,
Danish Minister • Mr. Everett, United States' Minister ; Mr.
Sancho, Spanish Minister ; Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa,
Brazilian Minister, and M. de Paiva, Attache to the
Legation •, Baron de Nieumann, Austrian Minister; Baron
Koller, Conseiler of Legation ; Le Baron de Lebzeltern, Se-
cretary of Legation ; and Prince Nicholas Esterhazy ; Baron
Gersdoff. the Saxon Minister; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Charge
d'Affaires, and Mr. Negrete, Secretary to the Mission ' • M. M.
Mosquera, New Grenada, Charge d'Affaires • Fuad Effende,
Ottoman Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by Mr. Salatne, her
Majesty's Oriental Interpreter ; Baron Rehausen, Swedish
Charge d'Affaires, and Mr. Francisco Pamfiello, Secretary of
the Spanish Legation.

At .the General Levee the following Presentations to her Ma..
jesty took place :
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lieutenant Grenadier Guards,
by his Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, Field Marshal the
Duke of Wellington.
The Vice-Chancellor Wigram, on his appointment as Vice-
Chancellor, by the Lord Chancellor.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge, on receiving her
Majesty's permission to wear the Grand Cross of the Red
Eagle, conferred upon him byhis Majesty the King of Prussia.
The Lord Mayor, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. Geo. Hope, on his appointment to office, by Lord Stanley.
Mr. H. Manners Sutton, M.P., on being appointed Under
Secretary of State for the Home Department, by the Right
Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bart.
Sheriff Magnay, by Sir James Graham, Bart.
Mr Sherießogers, by the Right Hon. Sir James Graham.
The Attorney-General, on his appointment, by the Lord Chan-
cellor.
The Earl of Westmoreland, on succeeding to his title, by the
Duke of Wellioston.
lion. Mr. Corry, on being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty,
by the Earl of Haddington.
Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, on his promotion and
appointment as a Lord of the Admiralty, by the Earl of
Haddington.
Rev. Henry Thomas, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, by the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
Mr. George Hayter, M. A.S.L., Painter of History and Por-
traits to her Majesty, on his being 'appointed Principal
Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Sir
David Wilkie, deceased, by the Hight Hon. Lord Viscount
Melbourne.
Sir James Rivett Carnae, Bart., on his return from the Go-
vernment of Bombay, by Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci.
Major-General Sir Frederick Stovin, on promotion, by Lord
11111.
Colonel Buckley, on promotion, by Lord Hill.
Colonel Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards, on appoint-.
ment as Aid-de-camp to the Queen, by General Lord Hill.
Col. Oltffield, 11. E., on appointment as Aide-de-camp to the
Queen, by the Master-General of the Ordnance.*
Colonel Weare, Aide-de-camp to the Queen, on appointment,
by Lord Hill.
Colonel Broke, on appointment as Aide-decamp to the Queen,
by General Lord Hill.
Colonel Dyneley, C. 8., on being appointed Aide-de-camp to
the Queen, by the Master-General of the Ordnance.
Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., on his nomination to the
Grand Cross of the Bath, and on his promotion, by the First
Lord of the Admiralty.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, on being appointed
Director of the Royal Engineer Field Duty Establishment,
by the Master-General of the Ordnance.
Major-General Sir James Reynett, on promotion, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Major-General the Earl of Munster, on his promotion.
Lord William Russell on his promotion Lo Major-General,
by Lord Hill
General Lord Strafford, on promotion, by the Duke of
Wellington
Right Honourable Sir George Murray on promotion, to the
rank of General
Major-General Wemyss on promotion, by the Earl of Erroll
Lieutenant-Colonel Cornwall, Coldstream Guards, on his mar-
riage, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
General Sir W. Hutchinson, on being appointed Colonel of
the 75th Regiment, by eneral Lord Hill
The Archbishop of York presented addresses to her Ma-
esty on the Birth of the Prince of Wales, from the Arch-
bishop and Clergy of the Diocese of York, and from the Dean
and Chapter of the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St.
Peter, in York.
Earl. De la Warr presented an Address of Congratulation
upon the Birth of the Prince of Wales, from the Inhabitants of
the Borough of Stratford-on-Avon.
The Duke of Richmond presented an Address of Conn'reu-
lation from the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot-
land.

The Marquis of Londonderry attended the presentation of a
congratulatory Addres, by the High Sheriff of Co• Down on the
Birth of a Prince.

Lord Marcus Hill presented a Congratulatory Address on the
Birth of the Prince, from the Mayor and Corporation of the
Borough of Evesham.
Earl Fortescue presented a Congratulatory Address from the
Town of South Molton on the Birth of H. R. H. tha Prince of
Wales. .

The Attorney-General and Colonel Peel presented an Ad-
dress of Congratulation from the Corporation of Gotlman-
cheater, on-the birth of the Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Bedford presented a congratulatory Address
from the county 'of Bedford, on the birth of is Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales.

The Earl of Albemarle presented an Address from the Ma) or,
Aldermen, and Burge sea of the city and borough of t` orwich,
calling her Majesty's attention to the dreadful destitution
arising from the depressed state of manufactures and com-
merce caused in their judgment by the protective duties on
eorn, and other necessary articles of life, and further evressing
their want of confidence in the men who have forced themdelves
into her Majesty's Councils in the place of the late able ad-
m nistration.

Sir Henry Halford presented an Address from the Royal.
College of Physicians.
Lord Foley presented an Address of Congratulation upon the
Birth of a Prince from the Mayor, Magistrates, Clergy, Bur-
gesses, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Kidderminster.
Lord R. Grosvenor presented an 'Address from the Inhabit-
ants of the City of Chester, to congratulate her Majesty on the
Birth of the Earl of Chester.

General Sir Willoughby Gordon was presented to the Queen,
on promotion, by Lord Hill.
There were also present the Archbishops of Canterbury and
York, the Bishop of London. !the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
President, the Lord I'rivy Seal, the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, the Secretaries ad State for the Home, Foreign, and Co-
lonial Departments ; the First Lord of the Admiralty, the
President of the Board of Trade, the President of the Board of
Contrail, Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Captain of the Ho-
nourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard, Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, the Vice
Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller
of the Household, Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley,G.o H.,
Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, the Master of the Cere-
monies, Hon. Sir E. Butler, Lieutenant of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir Edwin Pearson, Lieutenant of the
Yeomen Guard; the Judge Advocate General, Mr. S. M.
Phillipps, Under Secretary of State; the Queen's Advocate,
the Adjutant-General of the Forces, Mr. Robinson, Standard
Bearer to the lion. Gentlemen-at-Arms; Lieutenant-General
Sir A. F. Barnard, Clerk Marshal to the Queen Dowager;
Sir Francis Palgrave, the Deputy Keeper of her Majesty's
Records ; the Quartermaster General to the Forces ;
Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., Comptroller of
the Household of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ;
General Sir George Anson, G.C.8., Groom of the Bed-
chamber to H. R. li. Prince *Albert ; Colonels Wood and
Owen, and Captain Sir Andrew Green, R.N. (in waiting)
Aid-de-camp to her Majesty ; Dr. Chambers, Physician in
Ordinary to the Queen and the Queen Dowager ; Rev. J.
Vane, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, in waiting; Colonel:Arbuth-
not, Equerry to the Queen ; Lieut.-Colonel Wylde, Royal
Horse Artillery, and Lieut.-Colonel Bouverie, Equerries to
Prince Albert ; Captain Sir W. H. Dillon, R.N., Equerry to
H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex ; Colonel Sir Samuel G. Hig-
gins, Equerry to H. R. H. the Duchess of Gloucester ; Bev.
Dr. Mortimer, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Rogers ; Lieut.-Colonel
Hall, Silver Stick ; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Member
of the Ceremonies ; Mr. James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the
Cheque of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Mr. El-
lenthorp, Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeoman Guard; Cap-
tain J. Parker Nuttall, Exon of the Yeoman Guard in Wait-
ing ; Sir Benjamin Smith ; Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and Con-
sul-General for the Hanse Towns ; Chevalier Hebeler, his
Prussian Majesty's Consul-General ; the Groom of the It obes ;
Captain Pechell, R.N., Equerry to her Majesty, the Queen
Dowager; Lieut. •Colonel Sir trederick Smith, Lieut.-Col.
niggle, and Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Gentlemen Ushers us
Waiting; Mr. Mellish, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty the
Queen Dowager; Captain G. C. Blake, ' R.N. Gentleman
Usher to Prince Albert in Waiting ; and the following-..
DUKES—Richmond, Bedford, Somerset, Wellington, Ar-
gyll, Buckingham and Chandos, Beaufort, Sutherland.
MANQUlsas_Londonderry, Headfort, Downshire, Worces-
ter, Salisbury, Cholmondeley, Anglesey, Clanricarde, Lans-
downe, Granby, Thomond.
E ilLs —Munster, Westmoreland, Fortescue, Fitzwilliam,
Radnor, Albemarle, Morton, Denbigh, Lincoln, Rosslyn, Er•
roll, Uxbridge, Clarendon, Sheffield, Rosebery, Elgin, 'ome,
Cowper, Clare, Egmont, Cadogan, Hillsborough, Dalhousie,
Dunmore, Cowden., Yarborough, Devon, Athlone, March.

VISCOUNTS—Melbourne, Canterbury, Lake, Howick, Can
tilupe, Maynard, Canning, Palmerston, Ebrington, North'and,
Villiers, Lifford, Marsham, Barrington, Alford, Templetown.
BisHOPS—Durham, IVorci.ster, Ripon, Hereford, Chester
Lincoln, Ely, Carlisle.
Loans—William Russell, Marcus Hill, Foley, R. Grosve-
nor, Kianaird, John Russell, Bexley, Alexander Gordon
Lennox, F. Gordon, A. Fitzelarenee, Mahon, Campbell, Gran-
villa Somerset, Dinorben, A. Paget, Cottenham, Sandon,
Bloomfi Id, F. Egerton, F. Somerset, De Freyne, De Tabley,
Trimleston, H. Cholmondeley, Carrington, Pollimore, Illostys,
Duncannon, Radstock, Rivers, Teignmouth, Colborne, Godol-
phin, Norreys, Lovat, J. Stuart, Dalmeny, Mark Kerr,
Horsley, Eliot, C. Hamilton, Redesdale, Cortenay, W. Len-
nox, Kilmaine, J. Manners, Delisle, Beaumont, Cremorne.
RIGHT HONOURABLES—CharIes D'Eyneourt, F. T. Baring,
Sir George Grey, Henry Ellis, Wm. Gladstone' S. R. Lush.
4,g-ton, Sir Wm. Rae, Sturges Bourne, Sir Gore Ousley,
Bart., G.C.11., E. J. Stanley, Sir R. Adair, Sir J. Beckett,
Bart., H. Labouchere, M.P., Sir A. Foster, Lieut.-Colonel
George Byng, F. Shaw, M.P., George Evans, Sir A. John•
ston, Sir E. Knatehbul.

_
IloNoultAßLEs—Mr. Corry, Major George Keppel, Capt.
Hood, Capt. Duncombc, Capt. Gordon, Charles Hope, M.l'.,
R. H. Clive, Mr. Denman, 13. Baring, William Browne, M.P.,
J. L. Browne, Capt. Liddell, T. Liddell, R. Rowley, Captain
,Ilous, F. Scott, M.P., Gen. Sir A. Duff, H. M. Sutton, G.
C Norton, J. Ponsonbv, Col. W. Stratford, G. Maude,
Cholmondeley. , R. Booth Wilbraham, E. Mostyn, M.P., W. R.
Colborne, M.P., Charles Law, Q.C., Col. G. Cathcart, M.
West, Sir E. Out, Dean of Cloghcr.
ItONETS—Henry Halford, Robert Fitz Wygram, J.
Rivett Carnac, J. F. B. Johnstone, Felix Booth, Alexander
Hood, James Clark, Rowland Hill, B. C. Brodie, Isaac Lyon
Goldsmid, F. Head, Edward Co!ebrooke, J. Harington, J. It.
11641, M.P., Ft. Ferguson, F. H. Lacon, G. Staunton, J. H.
Telly, J. Walsh, W. Curtis, T. Fremantle, G. Clerk, C. Le-
mon, J. H. Seale, C. Ogle, F. Hamilton, J. Easthope,
G. Winnington, C. Domville, W. Clay, N.Y., E. C. East,
F. Burdett, R. Campbell.
St as—Chas. Wetherell, Chas. Aldis,G. Jackson, R. Hunter,
J. Trollope, George Carroll, John Kirkland, A. L. flay, M.P.,
J. Eyre, G. Stephen, T. Fellowes, C. Napier, R. Bulkeley, J.
Fellowes, J. Owen, J. Awdry, J. De Veulle, W. Lowthrop,
C. Hunter, H. Willock.

DEANS—Durham, Salisbury, Cat lisle-
A RCHDEACONS-Aliddlosex, St. Albans, Burney, Wil-
berforce.

REV. DOCTORS—Spencer W. Walsh, Russell, Bland,
D'Oyley, Dibdin.
REV. MESSIEURS—R. Burgess, P. Lewis, J. Ditcher, Lord
W. Russell, C. Wetherell, C. H. Gladwin, J. Skill, W. Can-
ning, C. Klanest, G. Straton, H. Palmer, J. Hitchings, W.
Gill, M. Wynyard, J. Symons, W. Hawks.
DocToas—Henry Lee, Bowring' R. Ferguson, J. Forbes,
Aldis, Gordon; R. Lanycn, Gordon, Dumbreck, Harrison,
Clarke, Quarrier, Granville, Ifil.

ALDERMEN—EIdridge, Kay, Field, R. Wright, Smith,
Tottie, Shuttleworth, Wells, born.. _ _

MESSIEURS—CuIIing Smith, Logic, B. Austis, P. Scrope,
Sheppard, M.P., Bulkeley, J. Heron, C. Lane, Drysdale, M.
Gore, M.P., W. B. Stopford, G. Vernon, T. Fuller, W.
Chute, M.P., Bashleigh, M.P., B. Baldwin, M.l'., G. Bal-
chin, G. Clarke, O'Alihie, R. W. Clarke, J. 11. Gill, J.
Brocklehurst, M.P., Sotheron, Heneage, 'A. S. O'Brien, D.
0. Hill, P. Dickson, R. J. Eaton, M.P., 11. B. Curteis,
M.P., J. Smith, H. Brazier, E. N. Dawes, E. Fans, C.
Mills, S. Ilarfortl, ALP., Hampden, R. Clayton, M.P., D.
Bethune, C. Legli, A. E. Chalon, R.A., S. B. Edenborogh,
llerbert, T. Rick ford, G. W. Sultan, F. 'l'. Foljambe, War-
dell, Duffield, M.P., It. Aubrey, Mitchell, O. S. Ouley, J.
C. Grose, D. t•tewart, Verner, C. E. Levey, Blewit,
'l'. Verner, M. Gibson, J. Masterman, J. Booth, W. G.
Ouseley, Meek, Thos. Gill, E. Denison, M.P., R. Palmer,
M.P., G. P. R. James, W. C. Plowden, J. Lobb, Cade,
\V. E. Elkins, M. J. O'Connell, Thos. Fuller, W. 11. New-
man, Wooldridge, 3. Marshall, R. J. Eaton, M.P., J. E.
Marshall, Grimsditch, ALP:, J. H. Gill, :Christopher, S. 11.
Godson, F. Cox, Hill, A. Hussey, East, 241. P., S. Weld,
Winterbottom, Phillips, R. W. Lowry, T. F. Lowry, Maxsc,
A. Osborne, E. Shirley, T. Mainwaring, ALP., Howard,
Bramwell, J. Round, jun., Pusey, M.P., F. West, Pawson,
Wallace, Eddison, C. A'Court, J. 11. Plunkett, 11. De Castro,
V. Morris, S. Herbert, J. Godley, C. E. Trevelyan, S. L.
Fox, Hussey, S. Dickins, Colquhoun, Matthew Alepson, Ed-
ward Breeze, 0. Morgan, Macaulay, Russell, Legh, E. V.
Harcourt, A'Beckett, R. Neville, H. Rice, Young, M.P., D.
Morris, M.P., Lindsell, Blackstone, M.P., Bonham, W. J.
Welsh, Fester, V. Smith, M.P., W. Corfield, J. M. Bracken-
bury, J. Harrison, It. T—Claridge, G. Knight, M.P., Pem-
berton, A. Buchanan, H. H. Cohen, J. F. Stanford, P. Tigar,
May, Mundy, M. P., Sowerby, Birch, J. B. Bethel, Watkins,
P. W. Miles, M.P., Loudon, 13. Cochrane, H. Tufncll,
Jackson, Gordon, Allan, Hill, C. R. Buller, B. de Mounteney,
Binney, A. Spottiswoode, Mackinnon, M.P., Scholefield,
M.P., G. F. Muntz, M.P. 11. Birkett, H. F. Wood, J.
Weston, Fellowes, M.P., Bridge, H. Toole", T. N. Allen, T.
Verner, W. Seholefield, Cooper, Young, W. Miles, M.P.,
Sanders, Sanderson, M.P., Liveiay, Sotheron, C. Wood,
M.P., Owen, Rich, Heneage, Stephenson, E. Rice, M.P.,
J. B. Macdonald, C. Webber, Warren, 11. Broadwood,
A. Daniell, C. Balfour, P. Maxwell, M. Lockhart, B. Smyth,
hicks, S. Beale, Fleming, M P., G. W. Ledger, D. Tupper,
E. Seward, Lyall, M.P., 'l'. B. Irvine, R. M'Lean,
Dehany, G. W. Lambart, H. Stone, H. Broadley, Sutton
Sharpe, Q.C., C. Pailey, Stringer, J. Campbell, J. Bain, J.
Leadhetter, Alilnes, M.P., Simeon, R. Wellesley, Lawson,
Harcourt, W. T. Egerton, J. S. Leigh, J. Holmes, T. Sands,
C. Dawkins, Greene, M.P. Vaughan, Hale, Melville, G.
Fisher, J. Deighten, C. P. liarris, J. G. Teed, Q. C., Bul-
pett, K. Parker, D. Banks, W. Garnett, A. J. B. Hope,
Sheil, M.P., Tottenham, H. Liddell, E. Lawford, 'l'. L.
Price, Pringle M.P., Dobbs, 'l'. 11. Barton, M‘Guire, 'l'.
Shore, J. Halliday, Stanley, J. E. Lacon, F. Hodgson,
M. P., R. Benson, C. Cobbold, J. S. Taylor, Dud,
A'Court Holmes, W. Martin, Harcourt, J. Towneley, J.
Wood, Selwyn, Q.C., R. Ellice, E. Vivian, M.P., Price,
M.P., J. Green, P. M'lntyre, J. Trevethan, H. S. Law,
V. Stuart, M.P., C. Bruce, M.P., W. I. Le Feuvre, Way-
mouth, J. M. Balfour, G. Constable, G. Craig,
Merle, W. D. Taunton, M. Gaskell, M.P., H. Alexander,
Laurence, Wawn, M.P., Cotton, S. Lurdett, T. Thompson,
H. Court, W. Payne, Escott, M.P., G. E. H. Vernon, 11. '
Helbert, Owen, Lane, M. Baskerville, M.P., E. Poole,
S. Carey, Waddington, M.P., Blakemore, M.P., Hill, B.
Oliveira, P. Dickson.

A numerous body of military and naval gentlemen were
also present, most of whom were presented on their recent
Brevet promotion. Their names ill be givento-morrow.

The following Noblemen and Gentlemen had the honour of
being presented to her Majesty :
Marquis of Worcester, on appointment to the Ist Life Guard?,
by the Duke of Beaufort
The Earl of Elgin, on his appointment as Governor of Jamaica,
by Lord Stanley
Earl of Home, by the Duke of Buccleuch
The Earl of Egmont, by Lord Redesdale
Earl Cadogan, on promotion to a hear-Admiral
Viscount Villiers, on his marriage, by the Earl of Jersey
Bishop of Worcester, on his translation, by Lord Cottennam
The Earl of Athlone, by Colonel Bentinck . _

Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, upon being appointed to a
Cornetcy in the Royal tierse Guards, by the Duke of Rich-

mond.
Lord liadstock, on his promotion to Rear Admiral.
Lord Alarck Kerr, on returning from Jamaica, by the Duke of

Bucclench.
Lord Cremorne, on his marriage, by Mr. Stanley.
The Right Hon. Sir William Rae, on his appointment as Lord
Advocate of Scotland.
The Hon. Captain Gordon, on appointment to be a Lord of the
Admiralty, by the Earl of Hattnington.
Hon. Charles Hepe, M.P., on being appointed a Commissioner
of Greenwich Hospital, by Sir Robert Peel.
The Hon. B. Baring, on his appointment as Secretary to the
Board of Control.

Hon. Cait: Liddell, on his appointment as Comptroller to her
Royal Highness the Duchesss of Gloucester, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
The Hon. Wm. Browne, M.P., by the Marquis of Lansdowne.
The Hon. J. L. Browne, on his appointment to the 64th regi-
ment, by Lord Kilmaine.
Hon. H. Manners Sutton, M.P., on being appointed Under
Secretary of Sate for the Home Department, by the Right
Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bait.

The Hon. Colonel George Cathcart, King's Dragoon Guards,
on his return from Canada, by Gen. Hon. Sir Wm. Lumley.
Sir John Easthope, Bart., M.P., upon his creation, by the
Right Hen. the Viscount Palmerston, M.P.
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, on his being created a Baronet, by
Lord Viscount Melbourne

Sir John Harrington, Bart., Ensign and Lieut. Goldstream
Guards, on his appointment by Colonel Walton.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart, on bis appointment as one of the
Secretaries of the Treasury, by Sir R. Peel.
Sir George Clenr, Bart., on his appointment as one of the
Secretaries of the Treasury, by Sir R. Peel.
Sir Charles Ogle, on his promotion to Admiral of the Blue
Sir William Clay, Bart. M.P., on being created a Baronet, by
Lord John Russell

Rev. Charles Henry Gladwin, by Mr. Patrick Paget
The Rev. Henry Palmer, by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln
The Rev. William Gill, Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Corn-
vral, by Lord Elliot
Dr. Granville, to present his new work " The Spas of Eng-
land." Dedicated by permission to her Majesty
Alderman R. Wright (Macclesfield), by Mr. Tatten Eger-
ton, M.P.

Dr. Dumbreck, Surgeon, 7:ld llighlanders, by Co!onel Arbuth-
not, 72d Ilighlandlanders
Dr. Gordon, 95th Regiment, by Sir Thomas Wilshire, Bart.
Dr. Harrison, by Sir Janie Eyre
The Rev. Jelinger Symons, by Sir R. Pr:ee, Bart.
Rev. John Skill, Chaplain to the Mayor of Huntingdon, by the
Attorney- General.
Sir Thomas FeHowes on his appointment as one Gf her Ma-
jesty's Naval Aide:de- Campes.
Sir J. Awdry, on his return from Bombay, by Lord Fitzgerald.
The Dean of Durham, by Lord Melbourne.
Mr. Archdeacon Burney,•by the Lord Bishop of London
Rev. Dr. Spencer W. Walsh, by the Marquis of Salisbury
'I he Rev. George Steaten, by the Duke of Rutland
Sir George Jackson, H. .H., her Majesty's late Commissary
Judge at Rio de Janeiro, on his return, by the Earl of
Aberdeen

Sir C. Napier, by Lord Amelius Beuclerc
S.r John Trollope, by the Marquis of Exeter.
Mr. John Godley, by Mr. Young, M.P.
Mr. Thomas Bacon, by the Earl of Devon:
Mr. Legh, by Mr. Greene, M.P.
Mr. Matthew Alepson, by Dr. Aldis.
Mr. H. Rice, 72d Highlanders, by Sir Edward Knatchbull.
Mr. Rashleigh, M P. by the Right Hon. Lord Eliot.
Mr. Lindsell, Mayor of Huntingdon, by the Attorney-General.
Mr. Foster, Attache to her Majesty's Mission at the Court of
Saxony, by the Right Hon. Sir Augustus Foster
Mr. W. J. Welsh, Mayor of Wells, b Lord Portman
Mr. Bonham, on his appointment as Principal Storekeeper of
the Ordnance, by Sir G. Murray
Mr. Young, M.P., on his appointment as a Lord of the Trea-
sury, by Sir R. Peel
Mr. R. T. Claridge, by Lord Viscount Chelsea, M.P.
Mr. James Harrison' by the Duke of St. Alban's
Assistant-Surgeon Logie, M.D., 72d Highlanders, by Colonel
Arbuthnot
Mr. Drinkwater Bethune, by Sir James Graham, Bart.
Mr. Colquhoun, her Majesty's Consul-General in Wallachia, by
the Earl of Aberdeen
Mr. J. M. Brackenburg, jun , on his appointment as her Ma-
jesty's Consul at Cadiz, by the Earl of Aberdeen
Mr. J. H. Plunkett, her Majesty's Attorney-General for New
South Wales, by Lord Stanley
Mr. Charles A'Court, by Lord Eliot
IVr. Cade, late her Majesty's Consul at Panama, by the Earl
of Aberdeen
Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, on being appointed a Deputy-
Lieutenant of Kerry, by the Marquis of Lansdowne
Mr. Thomas Fuller, High Constable of Brighton, by Captain
Pechell, R. N., M.P.
Mr. Wooldridge, by Mr. East, M.P.
Mr. J. H. Gill, High Sheriff of the county of Cornwall, by
the Right Hon. Lord Eliot, M.P.
Septimus Holmes Godson, by the Hon. Sydney Herbert
Mr. Henry Tootal, by Lord Melbourne
Mr. John Stirling '1 aylor, on his return from Germany, by
Mr. Barclay de Mounteney
Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, by Alex. Pringle, Esq., M.P.
Mr. G. F. Muntz, M.P., by Sir J. Graham, Bart.
Mr. James Weston Renter, Warden of the Fishmonger's
Company, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
Mr. Sutton Sharpe, on being appointed one of her Majesty's
Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor
Mr. Kenyon Parker, on being appointed one of her Majesty's