The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-01

When the bill should have BEEN concurrsd In BY -
other 6ranchss and finally had received the reyd as
n England He gave every credit to those gentlemen whS
opposed the bill religious grounds andwho thought ~
when others entertain different opinion and the Imees
rial Parliament has sanctioned similar enacments viii
out producing such effects as were apprehended ha
they should not De 80 scrupulous about granting 9
divorce in the present instance where the beat INTEREST
Of society ana tns cause Of morality would be suS
to contract other matrimonial engagemsnts Were thak
act permitted the consequences would be tremsndsus
He concluded by disavowing any intention Of brnxne
forward bill which would have the most remote Ssss-
dency to be productive of immortality and he could
no objection to passing that before the House psrea-
larry asit could not become law until 1t should have
received the Queens assent.
Hon. DR.. Tache said he had been taxed with making &
speech in relation to the French revolution but It va
for the purpose of showing the danger of innovation snl
the whole Of bad reference to the CANCER to be aps
hended from divorce as to the family more immedsfe
affected and to society at large the honorable Qen
teman could show that hal dozen children having one
common father and descended from half dozen wc1nen
could respect him. that order aud harmony could ar
list in the domestic circle, and such state Of things
would not be curseto society," then his arguments
He had stated before that the prevalence Of divorce in
there and were It not for the safety valve afforded -
the Far West whittier resort many Of those whom the
law has corrupted there would be extensive oorruptoa
can lady in company at one time with three mon -
whom she had been married. This circumstance brought
to his mind trait Of Roman history previous to the de-
cline of that empire when it q common occurrcaoo
for to boast of having had fifteen and tweav
husbands And when the Far West shall have been pse-
pied obserbed the Doctor who allowed himself Wide
marginAmercan ladies' may also boast of having haA
a. many as the Roman matrons Then he said look sst
empire Gentlemen, he remarked, had insisted that
the opponents Of divorce viewed it as religious
social question aud in that light he had treated IT, Bat
even az religious question: from what he had ard
am v II Of
ter than those who call themselves Protestants which
views that institution in the light that of the
Church of Rome-as a religious ceremony.
After two other members had expressed Their
views in favor Of the powers possessed by the legislature
which had been adduced in the present. case to justly
such procedure the question to the record readings
s ,na rising and fGIr exclusive
read second time when the House went into committee
the bill which then agreed to and reported back.
The third reading was then ordered for to morrow
The Beresford Relief Divorce bill was to day read
third time in the Legislative Council and sent down to
the House of Assembly, where it was read first time,
and where it will probably meet with similar oppoatioa
to that which it encountered in the other branch Of ~
legislature and where it win also ultimately pas with
q suspending clause. RI
But even in the event of its receiving the Queens
sent it appears to me the troubles Of Captain Berea
ford will not have ended-or, rather they win be-
eptailed upon the heirs of any property which he
may possess, of any title of nobility which thsy
may lay claim. That the provincial Legislature may
pass such bill that which has been referre4
been that the best legal minds in England decided
that does not this power where the parties
not resident in the Province which is at the
with Mrs. Beresford and although sufficient influence win
he exerted in England behalf of Capt Beresfod to I'd
him of the lady whom he has been united yet the
operation of such may at future day -
tested by interested parties in the courts Of law and e4
y in that country Doubts will also arise as to the pa
ternity Of the offspring which it the intention -
Capt Bereford to legitimatize by marriage and the
House Of Lords may yet be engaged in discussing dia
puted title the peerage emanang from this
1t is evident that Notwithstanding the dsavowas that
made, religious education and feeling, had COED
much struck with the prompttude, with which the
Speaker endeavored to meet insinuaon made BY the
last gentleman who spoke the subject, when aludinG
to the facility with which divorce attained by Ma
poleon Immediately the House going into comttee.
he procured from the library French work, for tAa
purpose of showing that the Pope opposed to d.
being granted to the Emperor, and who only uit-
mately consented the ground that his marriage With
Josephine had been rreguar-not being strictly in
cordance with the rules Of the church.