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Vrorettings in parliamtnt.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

SLANEY'S motion fora standing committeeortnpaid
'commission to consider and report on practical plans, not con-
ttected with political chance, for the social imprOvement of the
working and poorer classes, was withdrawn after a short debate.
Mr. MACKINNON obtained a -committee to ascertain the most
'expeditious and least expensive mode of postal communication
between London and Paris, "and to the north of Europe,"
being added at the suggestion of the Government.
A motion of Alderman SIDNEY'S for leave to bring in a bill
'to abolish the payment of fines and stamp duties on the admis-
sion of freemen into corporations cf cities and bo! oughs in
England and Wales, was opposed by the ATTORNEY-GENERA L,
and negatived without a division. _ _

Mr. MITCHELL then moved that the house resolve itself into
a committee to take into consideration the duties on wood,
with the view of remitting the dtity on all wood used in ship-
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building,

HEADLA.NI and Mr. CARDWELL supported the motion,
which was opposed on behalf of the Government by Mr. L.A.-

130IICHERT

Mr. MITCHELL was about to withdraw his motion, till his
attention was called to the thin state of the Ministerial ben-
'dies, and, persisting in going to a division, he carried it against
+Government by a majority of 45 to 32.
The house was almost immediately counted out on Mr.
STANFORD rising to move for leave to bring in a Railway Audit
mil.

HOU
The adjourr

SE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
Ted debate on the Marriages Bill was resumed

-0-
Mr. S. HERBERT said, that in supporting
'say he did so from a consideration that the
-would warrant him in that course. He had not been convinced
from the arguments he had heard that such injury would re-
*mit to morality, that it was virong to entertain the question at
all. He admitted that this view of the case applied with differ-
ent force to -the lower and higher classes, but nevertheless,
viewing marriage as a civil contract which should be made co-
extensive with the happiness of the community, he would,
mlthouglj with considerable reluctance, support the second
Teading"of the bill.

the bill lie must
balance of evils

Mr. 'ROEBUCK said one of the evils of this bill would be that
41:4 limiting that feeling of tenderness which was so pure and
ioly between brother and sister, and which it should be the
abject of wise legislators to extend to all the female connec
/ions in one family. This bill would Ur(
gs, T

down the exist

, only between a man and his wife's sister, but also
between that wife and sister when she came to look upon her
as a probable successor, and substitute in their room, instead
.of peace and confidence, jealousy and suspicion. The bill
Acould also do mischief in another way, for when after the
wife's death the sister married the_ widower, she might have

children, the result of which would be the conversion c.,f the
Aaffectionate aunt into the jealous step-mother.- Under these

11E1E, said his objections to .the measure were entirely
- character, founded upon the effects which the bill
e wife, the husband, and ti

prospectiv

y to the

was across her s

band's
undergo a o
.31er fan(
ishe wou
Xusband v
leelin

but if this bill pa-ssed, her feelings would
age alteration; trifles light as air would disturb
whenever her husband and sister were together
aunted by dark and distracting surmises. The
I he taught to look on his wife's sister with other
'assert next to the wife's sister. She now regards

mnimpassi
infused ; t

titude no unc

are of tent

she shall ha
remainder (loud cheers) in the pillow_ on which her sister's
cheek may soon be coldly and lifelessly laid—if she shall he

a contingent, or rather a vested

taught to -as3ociate her ,iedding garment with her sister's
shroud—l am afraid that the spirit of conjugal enterprise will
be awakened; she will have recourse to all the expedients-of
captivation—all that she says„. and looks, or does—all her
'gestures, her attitudes, and her intonations will be swayed in
ler intercourse with her sister's husband by that system of
speculative endearment which women can so readily and
almost instinctively assume. He +brit .•

Jeneven . the feelirig of a
of the people of this country was against it; that
England were against it; that a large majority of
of the Church of England were against it; that the
land were against it, and he could take upon him-
rt that the people of Ireland were against it.
tubers addressed the house, and after Mr. WORT.
'led, the house divided, when the second reading
carried by a majority of 182 to 130.

vast majority
the women of
the cler

people of Scot'
*elf to a:
Other
ZEY had
sof the

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY,

Lord OVEKSTONE was introduced by Lord Campbell and
.Lord Portman. and took the oaths and his seat. Lord LONDES-
-330R0U011 was introduced by Lord Eddesbury and Lord Foley,
nd took the oaths and his seat.

Lord STANLEY presented a petition from Ripon, complaining
+of agricultural distress. The noble lord gave notice, on the
Tart of Lord Redesdale, that it was his intention, on Tuesday,
20 present a petition and call the attention of their lordships to
the present state of agriculture.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TnuRsoKy

In answer to Col. SIBTHORP, Lord J. li.l;;;Lir.4;iici that the
-new Lord Chief Justice. Lord Campbell, had accepted the same
salary as Lord Denman on his succeeding Lord Tenderden)
namely <t'B,ooo per annum ; and that a bill would be brought
in to vary the act which granted £lO,OOO as the salary of the
lord Chief Justice. Lord Join Russell added that the salary
. _

.of the (
-7.000.