Star.
London, England, 1830-04-02 00:00:00

HOUSE C'r LoßDS—Tins DAN.

Divorce Bills are generally obtained, is rather a proof
that Parliament too often neglects its duty, than that it
has done more than its duty."
But whilst the power is vested in Parliament, we can-
not see how the Members of either House could be jus-
tified in pronouncing upon the merits of the case without
the fullest investigation : labouring as this particular cue
does, " under the defectof wanting a trial by jury." The
Globe, however, assumes that " no honest man will
affirm that if a divorce had come down from the Lords
with precisely the same evidence as in this case, but the
parties to which were obscure commoners, instead of a Lord
and Lady and a Prince, any of the volunteer Judges of the
House of Commons would have thought it worth while to
ask two questions, unless there was a hope of extracting
some piece of indecency." Now, really we never re-
member to have read a more wanton, or a more un-
founded attack upon the functions and the obligations of
Parliament. We, who do not desire to make this a party
matter, and who deny that it has been made so, contend
with Sir CHARLES WETIIERELL, that " the House
would not discharge its duty if it did not go into its
merits, investigate its facts, and examine witnesses at
its bare although they were not upon oath. As the trial
laboured under the defect of wanting a Trial by Jury, it
was the duty of every Member to make himself a Jury-
man, and to try the questions at issue. It was right to
any individual,where addtery v as proved to obtain a sen-
tence in an Ecclesiastical Court; but he denied that
it was his right to obtain a Parliamentary divorce, which
was conceded not on a principle of the adultery having
been committed, but upon the indispensable ground that
there existed an absence of misconduct on the part of the
husband."

APPEALS--To be heard at Ten o'clock.
The Alarquis of Westmeath v. the Marquis of Salisbury. Ap-
pe.3 to be further heard.
S:r. J. Montgomery •. Maxwell. Appeal—to be further heard.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
Shakerley's Divorce Bill—to be further considered.
East Retford Witnesses' Indemnity Bill—secoad reading.

110 USE OF COMMONS-...T1119 DAY.

PRIVATE BILLS.
Latle Bolton Improvement Bill—second reading.
Derby Roads Bill—ditto.
Hungerford Market Bill—ditto.
FoleshiU Poor Bill—ditto.
Addington (Northampton) Enclosure Bill—ditto.
Ihfotd Canal El
s'raniforil Bridge Road Bill—ditto.
Mansfield and Chesterfield Road Bill—ditto.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Supply—Committee thereon. Remaining Estimates to be moved.
Ways and Means—ditto.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

11r. Sykes—to present a petition from shipowners of Kingston.
upou.Hull, complaining of distress.
Mr. W. Peel—to move Toe Rave to bring in a bill to repeal 56
Geo. HI. c. 49, to procure returns of persons committed, tiled,
at il convicted, for criminal offences and misdemeanours.
MINORITY of 56, who voted on Mr. Hume's motion for the
re committal of the St. Glks and St. George's (Bloomsbury)
Vestry Bill.
Birch, J. Harvey, I). W. Stewart, Sir M. S.
Blandford, Marquis Jephvm, Mr. Smith, J.
Calvert, C. Marjoribanks, Mr. Tennyson, Mr.
Cave, 0. Martin. Mr. Thomson, P.
Chichester, Major Marshall, W. Van Homrigh, P.
• (live, Mr. Marshall, J. Villiers, H.
Davenport, E. Month, Mr. Warburton, Mr.
a Dawson, G. Nugent, Lord Wilbraham, Mr.
Dundas, T. Protheroe, Mr. Wilson, Sir R.
Dundas, R. A. Ramsden,
Ferguson, Sir It. Robinson, Sir G.
Fergusson, C. Sandon, Lord
Gascoyne, Gen. Stanley, Mr.

LLLLL RS.
Hume, J.
Hobbouse, J C.

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2.

It should more especially be an indispensable ground
for the concession of such relief, that no semblance of
collusion should taint the proceedings—lest the House
might thereby be made a party to the perversion of that
power which it possesses only for the protection of mora-
lity, and the punishment of infidelity—in cases where sub-
stantial injuries nro proved to have been inflicted. It should
be an indispensable ground for such an act that the com-
plainant " came into court with clean hands ;" and above
all, that he should not " profit by his own wrong."_
Now, after a patient perusal, and a deliberate considera-
tion, of all the circumstances developed in these proceed-
ings, we must say, that we did never yet meet a
case, in which each and all of these pcints seemed
to us to require so much sifting. We never did
meet a case in which suspicions of collusion were so
difficult to be repressed. We never did meet a case in
which the complainant could, with so little appearance
of truth, be said to come into court with clean hands.
We never did meet a case in which, to our poor thinking,
the plaintiff so manifestly sought to profit by his own wrong:
—for we contend that it was a wrong on the part of the
husband to suffer such objectionable persons to approach
his wife, as it has been proved that Lord Ent. lc Nso nou m
allowed to associate with his Lady. We never did meet a
case in which, in every point of view, we are bound to
consider the Legislature so little called upon to afford
the relief prayed for. And yet this is the very case which
the Globe attempts to argue upon, as if an unjust prejudice
had been excited against the husband, merely because
that husband was " a Minister and an unpopular man ;"
and boldly accuses the Peers and Commons of England of
making it " a party matter." The question is not whe-
ther " the divorce from the tie of marriage" should be
allowed at all, or " entrusted to any other tribunal."
As the law now stands, we must desire to see it adminis-
tered alike to every man, aye and to every woman too :
and although there are cases in which the expence is most
seriously to be deprecated, yet we should much more se-
riously deprecate the introduction of any measure that
would enable a vicious and profligate husband to dissolve
the sacred bond of wedlock, for the purpose of getting rid
of a wife when she had " outlived his liking ;" of grati-
fying his own sensual passions ;—or of bettering his own
fortunes by a wealthier or more powerful connection—in
order to do which he need only suborn witnesses, and by
a cheaper process of the law accomplish his base purposes
at the sacrifice of a woman's reputation.

The proceedings to which the ELLEN BOROUG li Di-
vorce Bill has given rise in its progress through the House
of Commons, are calculated, beyond any other means that
can be devised or adopted, to effect a most salutary Tetanal
in that mode of obtaining release from the inconveniences
and the desagrimens of matrimonial engagements. Some
of our contemporaries have deemed it their duty to make
these proceedings the subject of animadversions and com-
mentaries, not only upon the actual facts of the case it-
self—and a more extraordinary or suspicious case never
came before Parliament—but also upon the principle of
the law under which such dispensations- have been hi-
therto sought, and, in many instances, too easily ob-
tained. So little, however, are we disposed to se-
lect such occasions for the dissemination of our own
opinions upon the abuses of our Legislative system ; so
repugnant is to us the task of securing public attention
to the display of our own disquisitional faculties, by the
concomitant exposure of the frailties or the guilt, the
en ors or the vices, of our fellow creatures ; that we should
have contented ourselves with placing the evidence, and
the remarkable manner in which the investigation of that
evidence has been conducted, upon record, unaccompanied
by one single comment;—had not the observations is
which the Globe has thought proper to indulge, and the
view which he has taken of the affair, appeared to us
so dangerous to the interests of morality and justice,
that it would be little less than a dereliction of our own
duty were we to pass them by unquestioned or unre-
probated. That any thing has yet transpired in the
course of the proceedings in either House, to warrant
the sweeping allegation, that this Bill " seems to have
been made in both Houses something like a party mat-
ter," we cannot for one moment admit. That any other
complainant, be his rank or station in society what it
might, seeking redress, under such circumstances as
LORD ELLEN BOROUG II has sought redress, would have
bad to undergo precisely such an ordeal as LOR D
ELLEN BOROUGH is even yet undergoing, we firmly be- HALF-PAST ONIL
The unfavourable state of the weather causes a past Gain. la
lieve. That the Lew itself is obnoxious to severe cen- the City, and but few persons have made their
sure, who shall pretend to deny ? That the Law of Di-
ttnle. Up
toto the present hour we have no att="o.4lll
his majesty's health, therefore his I -p-IL
vorce, as it now stands, is unquestionably objectionable, only rests on reports but it has had a little effect on tea
and, in its partial operation upon society, at variance with Console are rather better than in the early part of the
when they were at 921, and may at present be quoted 91111 ham
all our notions of right and justice, we willingly concede ; for the Account, and 921 'ellen for Money.
and so far are we from disputing the propriety, or even In thwehFichereidtvlettrereth2lperollid truant" doing is la Greek
the necessity, of transferring all such proceedings to a
tribunal that can be approached at less expense than We understand that a clerk, only
18 years of age, in
Pediment," that we cordially concur in that opinion a German house in Broad-street,
money of his employers to the ; has abscondtvl with'
mount, it is said, of
to its fullest extent. This part of the question has been 5,000/. and it is supposed has escaped
on board the
ktif,sbown, by the Morning Journal, to be " absurd in Cambrian which sailed from Portsmouth yesterday mom.
" sad ," un
pat nine o'clock, for New York. He has taken with
licapr,jilll is practice r, whilst the Ciro- ing
neck
he.
anti* diolimod thonopous by referring the him a female, a
.child, and a livery servant, the latter
basing been stationed at Portsmouth upwards of a week
soaccacee of such applicatiool for relief to the " "Pa sake the necessary arrangements for the flight. Mr.
cagy" with which such " ads of grace" haw) Mai Gate, the solicitor, has gone in pursuit of him, but with
the .action of the Legislatars :—" the ease eith which alight hopes of success.

CITY, TwsLvE o'CLocit.

We are spin without any arrivals of ship letters, and the ex.
press from Paris brings no information of importance. had it not
been for the report of his majesty being much indisposed our City
speculates would have had nothing to do. Consols which left off
yesterday at 291 for the Acanutt, opened at 92J 1, owing to the
above report, and have receded to 921 1 both for money and time.
To the present hour the operations in the Market have not been to
any great extent.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing. Greek may be quoted a
shade better.

Accounts from Ccnstantinople of the same date as the last, state
that Count Capo d'lstrias was going to issue a Manifesto to the
Greek Senate, owing to his having received & communication from
the Plenipotentiaries of the Grand Powers. A very animated nom.
munication is kept up with Alexandria, and blehemed All
is again in favour with the Porte. It is also positively known that
the Sultan will not take any part in the French expedition to
Aligien, and which is not approved of by the Ports.
The Belle Gabrielle, of AO guns, has smiled from Cherbourg for
Toulon, and the Melpomene, of SO guns, (friptes,) has sailed for
Brest.—the first having 000 men on board-12 men deserted from
tbs Gabrielle. An essay has been made at Toulon of a new Invented
Cosgrove Rocket, which is thrown to a great distance, and the lire
cannot be extinguished.

STATE GENIUS.

The country groaned in deco distress
—'Twas mast appalling !
It called for succour and redress,.
mph time for calling !
It sought for some vast genius, still'd
In legislation,
For Charlatans had almost kUl'd
The poor old Nation.
To meet one of the right wise stamp,
And Atlas shoulders,
Where did it look ? Why in the Camp
Amongst the Soldiers,
And found a Sage there, form'd to rule
Aye ! iron.handcd t _

Who own'd himself too much a fool;
Was not that candid ?
But friends averr'd he was deceiv'd,
Dupe of self-slim:dn.
And he heard, till himself believed :
Lord ! how folks wander !
And thought his head the very thing,
Such is our judgment !
To govern Commons, Lords, and King, .1
Just like a regiment ;
So took the reins without dismay
Folks you know chose it—
(To govern Empires is mere play—
For one who knows it.)
And he by beat of drum—'tis said,—
Strange way to win it ! „
Had knock'd state wit into his head—
Perchance nought's in it.
His foreign policy he fetch'd
From Ilindostan, Sirs.
And his home government he sketch'd,
From views in Spain, Sirs.
The first was ruled by this device—
Crouch to your Neighbour.
The second plied to forms less nice,
Will—and the Sabre.
He trick'd and trailick'd with our foes, . .
Till they despised us;
And underhand to friends dealt blows,
'Till they chastised us.
With tyrants he conspied to tear
All Constitutions, •
Allow'd invasions, here and there'
For Contributions;
Permitted Commerce to be cross'd,
By Coalitions ;
And suifey'd, to our fatal cost,
Sea Expeditions:
'Till nations rour.d no longer h'ear'd
B: haunts s name, Sin,
And treating us like rascals, ancer'd
At all our shame, Sirs.
While to the rogues who pull'd his skirt,
Reforming Whip—Sin,
He said—" My friends, I love the din,
It fattens pigs, Sin;
Thus curs'd at home, and scom'd abroad
lie still kept tearing
Along his way, break-neck, rough-shod,
Deaf to our swearing ;
And what is stranger still—without
Our hearts or money,
He )ct contrived to hold it out—,
WAS THAT NOT TUNNY?