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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

The second reading of the Marylebone Paris Clint was op-
posed by Sir B. HALL, who moved that it should be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. WAKLEY contended that the bill was a flagrant job,
and he hoped the house would reject it.
After some discussion the second reading was carried by a
majority of 206 to 131.
Mr. F. BARING asked Sir R. Peel several questions as to
the way in which it was proposed to collect the income tax.
Sir U. pEEL replied that the right hon. gentleman had put
no less than seven questions to him upon this head; but he
must say, that until the proper time for that disclosure came
he should decline, entirely from a sense of public duty, to
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The requisite resolution was then agreed to, and the house
resumed.
Mr. A. CAMPBELL moved for a select committee to consi-
der the constitution and principles of the church of Scotland,
and to inquire into the causes of the collision between the
supreme court of that church and the supreme civil courts,
and to report their obsavations thereon to the house.
Mr. COWPER supported the motion, feeling desirous, as a
member of the Church of England, to have some information
upon the subject.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that the government had come to the
resolution of standing by the law as laid down by the decision
of the House of Lords, which decision repudiated the veto
as being contrary to law. Under these circumstances the
ministry deprecated the appointment of a committee. Be-
sides, the inquiry proposed was far too extensive in its nature
to admit of their engaging in such an investigation.
Mr. Fox MAULE said he should support the motion,,now
that he distinctly understood that it was not the intention of
the governmentp legislate upon the subject. It was, in his
opinion, necessary that the people of England should be
madebetter acquainted with the important matter in dispute.
Sir R. PEEL said he quite agreed with Lord Cottenham
that it would be useless to legislate, unless they could hope
by legislation finally to settle the question, and from the
temper of parties in Scotland, he believed by interference
they would only make matters worse. He did not mean to
say that government was satisfied with the present state of
matters in Scotland; on the contrary, as soon as he had ac-
ceded to office, communications were opened with the view
of ascertaining if they could hope to effect a reconciliation
by means of legislation, and the result of those communica-
tions was a belief that the interference of government would
end in disappointment. He feared that the appointment of a
select committee would only tend to widen existing differences.
Mr. CAMPBELL replied ; after which the house divided,
and the motion was negatived by a majority of 139 to 62.
Mr. FERRAND moved for a copy of all the convictions in
the counties of York and Lancaster, by magistrates in petty
sessions, of persons who have been guilty of illegally paying
the wages of their workpeople in goods instead of the cur-
rent coin of the realm. The hon. member reiterated his
former charges against the manufacturers.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD said he had letters from persons in
Birmingham, informing him that the most gross imposition
had been practised upon the hon. member for Knaresborough,
as to what was said to have taken place in that town. No
such meeting as that he spoke of had ever taken place.
The motion was agreed to, the order's of the day were dis-
posed of, and the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMON-S.—WEDNESDAY,
Sir R. PEEL, in replying to a question from Mr. M. Gib-
son, as to whether the income tax was to be imposed on
pensions as well as upon salaries and annuities chargeable on
the consolidated fund, replied in the affirmative; and took
that opportunity of stating that her Majesty had communi-
cated to him her intention to submit to the income tax, in
common with her subjects, should such a tax be required by
the necessities of the country.
Mr. E. TENNENT moved the second reading of the Designs
Copyright Bill. The object of the bill is to extend from three
to nine months the copyright of designs for the purpose of

manufacture.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS opposed' the bill, on the ground.that
it would occasion the most serious inconvenience to our
manufactures, and lead to endless litigation.
Lord F. EGERTON thought the bill- was founded on the
soundest principles of morality, and was fully of opinion that
the manufacturers would find reason to be grateful to the
individual who had suggested its enactment.
Mr. SHIEL argued at considerable length that it would be
right to enlarge the time of copyright to six months, but he
was opposed t o any greater extension of it.
Dr. BOWRING thought the bill would not effect its own
object of giving protection to inventions, for it contained no
definition whatever as to what was to be deemed to be
invention.
Mr. M. PHILIPS thought that a term of three months was
quite sufficient for all departments of the trade. As a com-
promise, however, he might be induced to agree to extend
the copyright to six months.
Captain Frrzßoy thought the carpet trade required pro-
tection more than any other, on account of the expense of its
designs. The present term was not sufficient.
Mr. MORRISON was in favour of a fair protection, but
thought an exorbitant one would be very injurious to trade.
Six months' protection should be the outside.
Mr. HEATHCOTE thought that in the present bill there
was no protection against fraud in the registering of patterns,
and stated his approval of the French mode of giving publicity
to patterns. _ _ _

Mr. BROTHERTON said the house ought to be cautious of
extending beyond six months a bill likely to be productive
both of oppression and litigation.
Mr. GLADSTONE supported the bill, contendin4 that it
could not operate at all injuriously against our foreign trade
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in printed goods. _

The bill Was then read a second time

Lord MAnoN moved the second reading of the copyright
bill, which was agreed to on the understanding that the dis-
cussion should be taken on going into committee.
The adjourned debate on Lord F. Egerton's motion re-
specting the marriage law was then resumed ; and
Mr. BORTHWICK said there was no direct prohibition con-
tained in the Scriptures against a marriage between a man
and the sister of his deceased wife. He supported the mo-
tion of the noble lord.

Mr. CURTEIS also supported the motion, in order that the
nature of the bill might be seen and fairly considered.
Mr. C. BUTLER said at the first view of the question he
was inclined to be adverse to the motion of the noble lord,
but more full consideration had induced him to give it his
decided concurrence, for, however he might be disposed to
retain the present law as far as regatded the higher classes of
the community, he was convinced that in the middle and
humbler classes some such relaxation was necessary, for the
sister of a deceased wife would be the most eligible party to
watch over, perhaps, a large family of children left behind.
The general custom of European. countries, and also of
America, was in favour of such marriages, and they could
never persuade people that it was very horrible to effect
marriages which were sanctioned very generrally throughout
Europe, and sanctioned mote by,krete„stant, than .entholie
countries.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could no consent
to place the moral feeling of the higher classes and of the
lower classes upon a different footing, and in this case ne
should be more inclined to oppose such marriages amongst
the latter than amongst the higher orders. He forbore from
entering upon the religious portion of the question, from a
wish to refrain from making that house an arena for theolo-
gical discussion, and would therefore confine himself to the
inconvenient consequences likely to arise from such mar-
riages. The right hon. gentleman then argued at consider-
able length against such marriages; and said, in his opinion,
the bill would be, if carried, destructive to all social happi-
ness and comfort.

Mr. BROTHERTON said, that, although known to be ille-
gal, such marriages was very common amongst the lower
classes. It was only on the ground of expediency that the
question could be argued, and upon that ground he should
support the motion.
Mr. V. SMrTH opposed the motion, avoiding the religious
portion of the question altogether, and entirely relying upon
the extreme social inconvenience which the proposed measure
would be likely to lead to.
Mr. O'CONNELL opposed the bill, as opposed to domestic
convenience and domestic morality.
Lord ASHLEY said, that this very question had been dis-
cussed in France by persons who had no great respect for
either canon or ecclesiastical law. In the council of state,
under Napoleon, in 1804, it was determined that no such
marriages should take place between a man and his sister-in-
law ; and that even in such a case a dispensation should not
be allowed, although dispensations were allowed in the cases
of a man marrying his niece, or a woman her nephew. This
conclusion was come to solely because of the inconvenience
to which they were calculated to lead. In a matter of such
immense importance they should not interfere, unless com-
pelled to do so by an overwhelming necessity, which in this
case did not exist.

Mr. D. WOOD said that the conclusion come to by the
French Council of State was founded upon the facility of di-
vorce in France, which destroyed the analogy between the

Sir W. FOLLETT gave a lucid explanation of the law,
which, as far back as the reign of Henry the Eighth, declared
such marriages to be illegal, and in point of fact they had
always been illegal by the canon law, though, if not ques-
tioned during the lifetime of the parties, they would not
suffer them to be subsequently questioned. But such, he
contended, was not a proper state in which to leave the law,
for it left the parties who engaged in such marriages at the
mercy of any one who chose to extort money from them by
threats of the ecclesiastical court, or of those who might have
an! interest in setting aside the claims of the children to the
property of the father. He should oppose the introduction
of the bill, as likely to give to the children but a chance of a

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