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PRINCIPAL BIISINESS OP THE WEER.

House cut Lonna Monday, May 17. Treatment of British Subjects Abroad Statements—Ensigration ; Conversation—Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, read a second time.

Tuesday, May 18. Bishopric of New Zealand Bill, and Disabilities Repeal Bill, [the Jew case,] reads third time and passed—House adjourned till Friday. Friday, May 21. Constitutional Government in Sardinia ; Conversation—May- nooth ; Questions and Answer—Jurisdiction of Equity Bill, read a second time, and referred to the Select Committee on the Masters' Offices Abolition Bill—Com- mon Law Jurisdiction Bill, considered in Committee.; House OF COMMONS. Monday, May 17. Parliamentary Oaths; Lord John Rus- sell abandons his intended Motion—Mr. Bennett of Frome ; Statement—Militia Bill, further considered in Committee, to clause 10th—Encumbered Estates Act (Ireland) CEmintutuce Bill, read a first time.

Tuesday. May 18. Forty Members not present at four o'clock : "No House." Wednesday, May19. Miscellaneous Statements : the Birman Empire; LipthOuSe Dues—Charitable Trusts Bill abandoned —Frome Vicarage case; Conversation—Co- lonial Church Government; adjourned debate on Mr. Gladstone's Colonial Bishops Bill—County Elections Polls Bill, read a second time—Maynooth ; Conversation on adjourned debate.

Thursday. May 20. Gold in Queen Charlotte's Island ; Statement by the Colonial Secretary— Ribbon men—Amalgam ated Engineers ; S Gatemen t by M r.Disraeli— Whyr.h- wood and Whittlebury Forests ; Government Bills to disatTorest, ready for next ses- sion—Costs in Crown Prosecution.; Statement by the Attorney-General—Militia Bill, further considered in Committee, to clause list—Deserters from Foreign Ships Bill, read a third time and passed—Maynooth College ; Conversation on the further day for the adjourned debate—Metropolitan Interments; Lord John Manners's Bill, read a first time.

Friday. May 21. London Necropolis and National 3fausokurn Bill, read a third time and passed—Spanish Constitution ; Lord Palmerston's Statement and Mr. Disraeli's Answer—Militia Bill, passed through Committee—New Zealand Govern- ment Bill, debated and read a second time.

TIME- TABLE.

The Lords. •

How of Hour of Meeting. Adjournment.

55 6h 45in

bh ah Man

No Sitting. No Sitting.

5h . Om

Sittings this M in:a , Time, en suns ink session; ; — 785.30m

The Coninuns.

Hour of Hour of

Meeting. Adjournment.

Monday 4h .(m) lb 15m

Tuesday No House. Wedm.lay Noon .... 6h Om

Thursday 45 . (ea) lh 43m

Friday Oh .(oni 1530w Sittings this IV ee k, 4; Tiume.34h 30m

— this Session. A ; — 3801t 13na

Monday Tues.lay ednistday Thursday Friday

MAYNOtaill.

The difficulty of fixing a time for ffinisilingthe Maynooth debate has givenaise to some skirmishing, in the course et which substantial state- ments en the main question were made.. Wednesdaarlast, Mr. Csanwarzsaid; he understood the day now pro. poser coati:sang the ,dabatewa Wednesday thellith of June,—a day by whiefi many Members hoped that the House would-no longer be sitting, and on which it was impossible that a Select Committee should commence an inquiry up-stairs. He had meant to vote for inquiry if the adjourned de. bate had been resumed now ; but he could not vote for it if it were post_ poned to a period when it could not take place. Mr. NEWDEGATE stated for Mr. SPOONHE., who was understood to have met with a cab accident, that Mr. Spooner had asked Government for a day, but they had not been able to afford him an earlier one.

Lord Jona RUSSELL said, he felt that appointing a Committee on the 16th of dune, when the House would possibly not be sitting more than two or three days, or at the utmost more than a week after that date, would be treating the question with so much disregard and disrespect that he hoped Mr. Spooner would not bring it forward then.

For himself, he was not indisposed to an inquiry into the system of edu- cation at Maynooth ; but he was not prepared to vote for inquiry by a se. lect Committee of that House, or to vote for a motion which questioned the very grounds on which the grant for endowing that system was founded. The Maynooth Act empowers inquiry by the Lord-Lieutenant, and that means might be resorted to. He was prepared to maintain the grant for Maynooth, but at the same time to make inquiry if the grant had been abused. The speech of the Home Secretary had left the country in doubt, and had thrown these questions open to the country : the Goyeninunt ought to give a decided opinion ; if they meant to withdraw the grant, they ought to say so, and not excite public opinion on a subject of such serious importance. He agreed with Mr. Gladstone, that if this small pittance were withdrawn, questions would arise which would not stop at Maynooth, but would lead to discussions on what was allowed for the Protestant establish- ments in Ireland. He thought it most desirable, when he held office, to keep this question of the ecclesiastical establishments of Ireland in abeyance, and not to provoke Parliamentary discussions upon it. But if the present Government were determined that the grant should be withdrawn, or if without being so determined they left the question to be ventilated during the next election upon the hustings, the Opposition would be forced to go into the whole question of the ecclesiastical establishments of Ireland. (Cheers from the Opposition.) A course more dangerous and more full of difficulty than that which the Government was pursuing upon this question he did not know. He trusted that the Government would be prepared before the 16th of June to tell the House whether they intended to maintain or withdraw the grant to Maynooth. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCEIECEQUEn stated at once, that the Govern- ment were not prepared to abrogate the grant to Maynooth; nor had anything fallen from any member of the Government to justify that as- sumption.

The motion had been brought forward on grounda with which he could not concur ; the Home Secretary had expressed himself in the same sense ; but the Government considered that inquiry—a properly limited inquiry— might take place, to see if the objects of the institution have been fulfilled. Any taunts against the Government about the continuance of the debate, he answered by suggesting that the debate might be resumed the moment that Members chose to give 11r. Spooner a Tuesday for the purpose. Mr. ANSTEY moved that the adjourned debate be continued next Wed- nesday (" the Derby Day") ; and the O'Golutait MAHON seconded the motion. The discussion was still proceeding when it was cut short by the adjournment of the House at six o'clock.

On 'Thursday, Mr. Ibrinsorms, Mr. M. J. O'Comisim, and the O'Gort- max Mariorr, resumed, the debate on Mr. Anstey's motion for 'adjourn- ment till next Wednesday, with speeches on the general merits of the main question. Mr. GLADSTONE recalled the point formally in band, and said that the adjournment to the 16th of June would go far to render the character of the House ridiculous in the extreme. Mr. Weramin agreed that inquiry commenced after the 16th June would be entirely futile. At last Mr. ArisrEY withdrew his amendment proposing Wednes- day next; and, on the motion of NT. FORBES, it was agreed. that the ad- journed debate should be taken in a morning sitting on Tuesday-the 25th.

Cannot Govinerangsrr IN THE COLONIES.

The adjourned debate on the second reading of Mr. Gladstone's Colo- nial Bishops Bill, commenced on the 28th April, was resumed in the morning sitting of the House of Coixunons on Wednesday.

It will be recollected that in the sitting of the 28th April there Wilti time only for Mr. Gladstone to explain, his bill, and that the debate was adjourned on the motion of Sir Jona; PAIINOTON, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Before the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate was read, Mr. GLADSTONE stated, that the Colonial Secretary had informed him, the day before, that the Government had changed these first intention, and were now to oppose the second reading : in that change- of position Mr. Gladstone wished to have fourteen days to consider what course should be taken.

The order of the day having been read, Sir JOHN Perrsrureir delivered his postponed speech.

He was happy to say, he agreed with Mr. Gladstone on the necessity of affording the churches in the Colonies more freedom of action than they now possess ; he admitted that in some respects the churches in the Colonies are suffering great disadvantages ; and he believed that they stand in need of legislative assistance in order to enable them to make regulations which are essential to their proper functions as distinct churches. Those disabilities are chiefly threefold,--first, their inability to make regulations for their own discipline ; second, their want of greater power of synodical action ; third, their want of power to adapt their forms and their liturgy to their re- quirements as missionary churches, one of the most important functions of churches in their position. The greatest want is the want of a proper power on the part of the Bishops to carry out the discipline of the respective sees. The Bishops had not too little power' they rather had too much power —indeed, an autocratical power- but they wanted the proper power of bring- ing offences to a fair and kndizie triaL A a an instance in point, Sir John stated the case as between the Synod assembled last February in Australia and the large body of the laity and clergy. The Synod bad agreed to a resolution which, it was thought, would have the effect of excluding from the Colonial Church all who dissented from the decision of the Privy Council in the Gorham case. Reference had been made to the Archbishop of Canter- bury ; and pending that reference, the House would feel that the present bill must be postponed. The bill itself was drawn in terms so indistinct, in language FO open to doubt, that he questioned whether any two lawyers could be found to agree on its real effect: but he would, deal with it on the assumption that it would hit what it aimed at. He objected, in the first place, that instead of putting. the Church of England in the Colonies on an equality with all other denote', nations of Christians, it would more likely place that church in a state of dominancv which it has never yet possessed anywhere, and which no other Colonial church has possessed - in the second place, that it would tend to tweak up the Church of England into small separate churches ; and in the third place, that it would destroy the supremacy of the Crown. To esta- blish these averments, Sir John entered into a minute verbal criticism of the etauses,—a criticism irrespective of their obvious intent, or capacity to be emended. The destruction of the Royal supremacy, he argued, would be effected by the seventh clause, which was the most important. of all : it omitted the oath of supremacy from the Colonial ordination service, and substituted for it the oath of allegiance. Upon this feature Sir John dwelt with great emphasis, as a most unprecedented and grave innovation, which he most withstand with all his energy, whether as Minister, as an inde- pendent Member of the House, or as a private citizen of the state. In conclusion, Sir John implored Mr. Gladstone not to talk of putting off the bill for a fortnight, but to withdraw it altogether for the session, on the ground that the negotiations between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Sydney may lead to useful legislation : and he premised, that if he yetained his office for another year, it should not be his fault if some legis- lation did not take place. Desiring tamest the question in the most friendly spirit, he would not move that the second. reading be postponed for six months, but that the House do now pass to the other orders of the day. Mr. GLADSTONE did not deal with the immediate amendment moved by Sir John Pakington, but confined himself to a rectification of Sir John's gross misrepresentation of the clause of the bill which he deemed most important and objectionable—the supposed destruction of the su- premacy. Mr. Gladstone showed that the destruction was not intended, and was especially avoided by the bill; which contained words precisely equivalent to the oath of supremacy. Mr. ADDERLEY treated the whole of Sir John Pakington's objections as based on unwarranted assumptions. Deeming the bill to be worthy of serious consideration, he put it to the House that their choice lay between the bill and an interminable postpone- meat Of legislation. He was of opinion that a separation of the Church from the State would be preferable to the pseudo-connexion which paralyzes the Church in the Colonies • and Sir John Pakington would do well to bear in mind the model of the Colonies; in America, when he comes to deal with the subject.

Sir Realm hams agreed with the Secretary for the Colonies, and would vote for going to the other orders of the day. He regarded the bill with the "greatest aversion."

Mr. A. B. HOPE regretted that a measure which only asked that the Church of England should be at liberty to organize herself in each colony, should have been met by mere assertions and special pleadings about the oath of supremacy. The ATFORNEY-GENERAL supported the interpretation put on the clauses of the bill by Sir John Pakington.

But, on the other hand, he supported by a legal argument, the proposi- tion that the act of Henry the Eighth, called the Submission of the Clergy and Restraint of Appeals Act, does not apply to the Church of the Colonies ; "that, therefore, there is nothing, so far as that act is concerned, to render it necessary that there should be a legislative power given to the clergy and laity to assemble together for the purpose of making rules and reguMtions for their internal discipline"- and that, if he were right in this view, " it followed that there was nailing in the existing law which could prevent their doing that at their own will and pleasure."

Mr. BETHELL held that Mr. Gladstone was mistaken in supposing that the members of the Church in the Colonies are under any great disad- vantages as compared with the members of other religious communities : the bill would create a series of ecclesiastical and spiritual tribunals the decision of which wouldbe irreversible, and against which there would be no appeal.

Sir Pane WOOD marked the important admission of the Colonial Secre- tary, that he did. not consider the state of the Colonial Church at all satisfactory. He observed that Sir Frederick Thesiger had not by his argument removed the doubt whether the Colonial Church is regulated by the statutes passed in this country for the regulation of the Church at home ; and expressed his conviction, that though this bill could not pass in the present Parliament, yet the time is not far off when the attempt will be made successfully to rescue the Church from its present condition. Mr. HORSMAN objected to the bill aieonferring on the Church of Eng- land in the Colonies, privileges not permitted to the Church at home ; and he advised that the Colonial Church should be placed in a state of perfect freedom from State restrictions, by renouncing all possible benefits from the State.

Mr. GrAnsrown said he would not press the bifi to a division : and the amendment for passing to the next order of the day was agreed to.

THE Mrtrrte. BILL.

In Committee, on Monday, farther progress was made to clause 16th. Every step was fought pertinaciously by the Opposition, and seven divi- sions of the Committee were taken. The most important issue though not the one longest contested, was that arising out of an amendment moved by Mr. CHARTERISs AO leave inirthe words in clause 16th relating to the ballot. The ranks of the majority were thinned on this point. Mr. Ilunsox admitted that he voted for it very unwillingly, as there was a universal feeling against the ballot among his constituents. Mr. H. BERKELEY said he should vote against the Government, "on the ground of the extraordinary feeling that was springing up against the bill throughout the country." Sir F. BARING urged the giving up of the ballot clauses, on the ground that they will throw charges of an undefined nature on the county-rates, instead of on the general funds of the country. The plainest defence of the clauses was made by the ATromsrev-GEsran..u.; who said, that if they left them out now, and after all found they were necessary next year, they would have to ask Parliament for the ballot in all its naked deformity. On a division, the numbers were—for Mr. Char- teris's amendment, 110; against it, I.27; majority for the Government and the ballot, 17. Several of the other divisions were upon exemp- tions moved by different Members. ,Mr. WALPOLE read a list of those intended— • They were' first, Peers of Parliament • second, persons serving in other forces of the Crown ; third, officers on half-pay ; fourth, commissioned offi- cers who had served four years in the Militia ; fifth, resident members of either University; sixth, clergymen ; seventh, persons licensed to teach in Bcparate congregations ; eighth, constables and peace-officers; ninth, ar- ticled clerks and apprentices ; tenth, seamen and seafaring men ; eleventh,

Persons employed in her Majesty's dockyards, &c. ; twelfth, persons free of the Company of Watermen ; thirteenth, any poor man. having users than one child born in wedlock.

The CHANCALLOR of the Exciter:ma intimated that Quakers will not be exempted from the duty of finding substitutes ; but amendments will be made of points of the law which have fallen behind the spirit of the age relative to imprisonment of defaulters, &c. In four of the divisions, the votes' were in favour of Government by 159 to 53, 164 to 86, 162- to 96, and 167 to 77. The last two divisions were upon motions fbr adjourn- ment, which the Government opposed, and on which they were supported by 156 to 73, and 179 to 40. At about one o'clock, the Chairman re- ported progress, and obtained kayo for the Committee to sit again on Thursday.

On Thursday, progress was made at a greatly accelerated speed ; though still there were four divisions taken. On the 17th clause, Mr. HARD- CASTLE moved the addition of a proviso which should exempt the men from being flogged when they were only under training and exercise ; as insubordination to a drill-sergeant was a venial thing compared with insub- ordination on actual service and in the presence of an enemy. Mr. BRIMS- FORD opposed the motion ; referring as his warrant to the general feeling ma- nifested on the former decision respecting corporal punishments, that there should be no difference between the regular Army and the Militia. In prac- tice, corporal punishment never was inflicted for venial offences. On a divi- sion, the proviso was negatived by 132 to 87. An amendment to clause 18th, moved by Mr. HRADLAM for Mr. E. H. BUNBURY, to limit the age of balloting to twenty-five instead of thirty-five, was negatived by 89 to 52. An amendment by Mr. MILNER GIBSON, to do away with the in- justice of billeting the men on licensed victuallers and beer-house-keepers,. was opposed by Mr. BERESFORD, on the grounds that there was no mode' so convenient, and that the licensed victuallers had a decided advan- tage and monopoly in the exercise of their trade, which justified the custom that had ever obtained of billeting troops upon them. It was negatived by 105 to 54. Clause 25th, enacting the repeal of the law authorizing the enrolment of the Militia in oases of insurrection or re- bellion, was opposed by Sir HARRY VERNEY and others ; who thought thatif invasion were attempted rebellion would be likely to accompany it. After some discussion on the meaning of the clause, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. offered to postpone it : but Mr. HsYwoon, Mr. Titoite- sort, and others, opposed this course ; and a division was taken on the question of postponement. The postponement was carried, by 200 to 61. At clause 28th, applying a multitude of the provisions of the 421 George III., Mr. BRIGHT asked for some respite : but the CusiscreLton of the EXCHEQUER, seeing that "the night was young and the House fresh," was for pressing further forward, so that they might finiah the proceedings in Committee on Friday. Mr. BRIGHT offered to let the other clauses pass without question if this one were postponed along with clause 25th. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER assented ; the other clauses were passed ; and the House resumed. The Committee to sit again on Friday. THE VICAlt OF FROME.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER volunteered a statement of the result of the inquiries that the Government has made into the case of Mr. Bennett.

The Law-officers of the Crown are of opinion that it would not be possible for her Majesty to issue a commission with powers to examine witnesses, &c. ; and that if she did so, it would assume the character of an ecclesiasti- cal inquiry, and be a breach of the Bill of Rights. But the Law-officers' an also of opinion that there exist other sufficient means of redress in due and. ordinary legal course. Under the Discipline Act, any parishioner of lib-eine can appeal to the Bishop of the diocese where the offence was committed, or to the Bishop of the diocese where the offender now holds preferment, and call for a commission of inquiry ; and if a prima fade case result, then a judicial inquiry may be demanded. (Ironical cheers.) The Government did not participate in any sentiment such as that which seemed to animate gentlemen opposite, but had such confidence in the sense of duty of the Prelates of the Church as to believe they would not for a moment attempt to interpose obstacles to the course of justice and truth. It does not appear, however, that any parishioner of Frome has sought the redress open to him. Mr. Houssisie deemed the statement so unsatisfactory, that he gave notice that "he would tomorrow move for a Committee of the House to inspire into the truth of the facts he had brought before the House." fhe case was mentioned again by Mr. lloasm.sx on Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday, he complained that so long a time had been taken by the- Government—three weeks—in considering the opinion of their Law-officers after they got it. He had given way at first solely because of the wish expressed by the Government, and thought that he and the House now had a claim to be placed in the same position as if the Government had not promised inquiry themselves, and so delayed matters that it would now be difficult for him to get a motion brought on. Mr. WALPOLE said, he had conferred with the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, and, considering the state of business, and their engagements. to other Members' they did not see how they could give Mr. Holman an early day. On Thursday, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER informed Mr. Horsman, that the Law-officers of the Crown were of opinion that there was no irregularity in the institution of Mr. Bennett to From° vi- carage.

BISHOP SELWYN'S MISSIONARY HEROISM.

In moving the third reading of the Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill, which erects into a new diocese a portion of the existing diocese of New Zealand, the Bishop of OXFORD paid a sympathizing and admiring tribute to Bishop Selwyn's labour, self-denial, and unwearied exertions.

He was placed in an island divided into seven different distracts, inacce: - Bible except by sea, and then he was without the ordinary means of transit. He had to pass from one side of the island to the other on foot, and often reached it worn out in body and with his clothes almost torn from him. He had to cross rivers without the aid of bridges or boats, accomplishing his- high vocation by the utmost sacrifice of labour, toil, and often exposed to danger. When he had brought his diocese into something like order, he un- dertook the work of spreading in the countless islands around him the know- ledge of that true faith of which he was the chief minister. Ile had founded a college in New Zealand, to which Ile had brought youths intrusted to his care from the different clusters of islands around ft, who were to receive there a Christian and English education, and then to go back to their heathen friends and become the seminal principal of Christianity and civilization among them. In executing that work, he bad acted practically as the cap- tain of the ship which he had himself chartered, and had not only worked it with his own hands to save the funds which he thought might le better ex- pended on other Christian objects, but had also exposed his own life to the greatest possible risks, in order that he might the more effectually perform this his labour of love.

The bill was read a third time, and passed.

THE AMALGAMATED ENGLNEERS AND MR. Disnesu.

Mr. FORSTER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether at an in- terview with a deputation from the Amalgamated Engineers at the Trea- sury, in reference to the late struggle between them and their employers, be stated that "the masters had acted in a =timer subversive of the law ? " It had been so publicly reported out of doors, and not contradicted. The Cnarresmon of the EXCHEQUER answered, that the interview in question was not with a deputation of Amalgamated Engineers, but with one from the United Trades of London. The expressions referred to were brought under his attention on Monday, by a gentleman connected with the Treasury who was present ; and he directed that an unqualified contradiction should be publicly given : but when Mr. Forster gave him private notice of the question now put, he recalled the permission to con- tradict, in order that he might make the contradiction himself personally, as he now made it.

"The representations of the deputation were listened to with that atten- tion which, I trust, representations of large bodies of the working classes, when urged with moderation and respect, will always be listened to by the Executive Administration of this country. But no word was uttered either by myself or by any other official gentleman present, which expressed any opinion of the conduct of the employers or the employed. It is therefore quite un- necessary for me to say, that not one word which has been quoted by the honourable gentleman was expressed by me, or by any other person."

METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS.

Lord JOHN MANNERS has brought in a bill to amend the laws relating to the burial of the dead in London. He explained at once, that the mea- sure had two objects,—one to close the burial-grounds of the Metropolis ; and the other to empower parishes to create cemeteries and burial-grounds outside the Metropolis, to receive those bodies for which there was not room in the grave-yards within the Metropolis. But he would explain more fully on a future occasion.

ONE-DAY POLLING AT COUNTY ELECTIONS.

The second reading of the County Elections Polls Bill was moved on Wednesday, by Lord Roamer Gnosvzsmn, without a speech, in the belief that the concurrence of opinion on the subject superseded the necessity of argument. But Mr. WALPOLE doubted whether the greatest possible in- convenience would not result till additional polling-places could be sup- plied; and this official opinion encouraged Mr. PACKS, Colonel SIBTHORP, and Mr. BRAMSTON, to oppose the bill. However, Sir JOHN PAXINGTON, the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, and MT. ROBERT PALMER, expressed opinions in favour of the principle of the bill ; and the second reading was carried, amid loud cheers from the Opposition.

EMIGRATION.

In moving for return; the Earl of HARROWBY raised a conversation about the hinderanees to emigration which the Emigration Office inter- poses. The Earl of DESART gave defensive explanations ; the result of which was, that the emigration-funds now in hand from the Colonies would be expended with great promptitude. The 173,000/. from Victoria would involve the transmission of 11,000 persons to Victoria, or about six ships a month ; the 67,000/. from New South Wales, ends sum from South Australia, each about two ships a month, during the year,—altogether, about ten ship-loads of emigrants a month. Lord Poiermasi condemned in detail several of the regulations insisted on by the Emigration Commis- sioners. Earl GREY to some extent defended the general course which the Commissioners have taken, as regulated not with the aim of removing inferior subjects from this country, but under the duty, binding on the Commissioners, of expending the money intrusted to them by the Colo- nies in sending out to them the best description of emigrants. The Duke of ARGYLL observed that some relaxations of the regulations have already been made : but Lord WODRHOUSE Mid, that if it be an object to save the wool-crop of Australia, a considerable further modification will be neces- sary.

TREATMENT OF ENGLISHMEN ABROAD.

Some explanations were given by the Earl of MALMESBURY, in reply to questions by the Duke of ARGYLL, the Earl of MINTO, and Earl Fin- WILLIAM, on the stage of the negotiations with foreign governments in reference to British subjects who have been outraged abroad.

The ease of Mr. Murray is that of the son of a meritorious officer formerly in her Majesty's service. Our Consul at Rome informed Lord Malmesbury, about last March, that Mr. Murray had been imprisoned at Ancona for thirty months, on a charge of murder alleged to have been committed in common with a band of regular murderers and bravoes who infested the country. In consequence of our representations he was transferred from the prison at Ancona to a prison in Rome. Lord Malmesbury wrote a strong letter to Mr. Freeborn, directing him to see in every manner possible that Mr. Murray had fair play. The only subsequent intelligence has been a newspaper re- port that Mr. Murray has been condemned to death, after a secret trial, at which he was not confronted with his accuser.

The case of Mr. Mather, at Florence, is very nearly, but not quite settled. On the general principles involved, Lord Malmesbury said it was not his duty as a member of the English Government to argue the justice or expe- diency of the laws which foreign states establish in their own dominions either in their wisdom or their despotism but it was his duty to see that.

• law, be it liberal or despotic, fairly exercised as it regarded her Majesty's subjects. Incidentally, Lord Malmesbury animadverted strongly on our having no legitimate channel through which we can make a regular appli- cation to the Papal Government; so that it is only in a circuitous underhand way, very unworthy of this great country, that we can assert and vindicate the great points of international law.

PARLIAMENTARY OATHS.

Lord Joins RUSSELL stated on Monday, that in the present state of the public business, it was not his intention to bring on his motion respecting the oaths to be taken by Members of Parliament.

MISCELLANEOUS STATEMENTS.

Mr. Hums has abandoned his intention to submit a motion on the Light-house Dues.

Mr. HERMES made a statement in reply to Sir Roamer INGLIS, to the effect that the Birman expedition has not been delayed one day beyond that on which it was intended originally to start. It would have arrived at Rangoon on the 1st of April, the day on which we at first gave notice

two should expect an answer to our ultimatum. If the satisfaction we asked had not been given, warlike operations would have begun on the next day.

Sir Joins PAXLNGTON informed Mr. GLADSTONE, that the Governor of Vancouver's Island has officially informed the Government of the disco. very of gold on Queen Charlotte's Island, to a considerable extent; information having also been received by Government that American tizens had proceeded in ships to the island, the Government had ordered the British Admiral on the station to send naval assistance for preserving order. No survey of the island has yet been ordered. The ATTORNEY,GENERAL stated to Mr. Lsimenn, that his attention has been to some extent directed to the question of the costs of Ceen-n prosecutions. It is an error to suppose, as was recently assumed in the debate on the Newspaper-taxes, that the Crown receives costs but does not pay them : it neither receives costs nor pays costs. If an alteration in the present system should be effected, it must be reciprocal; and in that event, it is worthy of consideration, that as the Crown succeeds in nine out of ten of the prosecutions it commences, the subject would have to pay far more than at present. Mr. LENNARD said that he would lay a bill on the table this session for consideration.

The CHANCELLOR of the Exclumausa informed Lord Duzzatx, that bills for disafforesting Whychwood and Whittlebury Forests have been pre- pared ; but as they can scarcely be passed this session, they will only be introduced in order to be printed and laid on the table.