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CHIT CHAT. Mr Seymour is about to retire from his sentry box as Serjeant-at-Arms to the House of Commons, and Sir Win. Gossett is to succeed him. Since the appoint- ment of Mr Abercrombie, we suspect the spice of dig- nity that belonged to the mace has evaporafed.-It is in contemplation to establish a Society for the pro- motion of iJiblica! Literature and Hebrew Learning! fhe wonder is that such studies have been so long neg- lected in our Universities. A-5 the members of Temperance Societies cannot bolt their scruples they are not iikeJy to swa-low the drams. A man turn- ing a corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields was knocked down the other day and seriously injured by a long fir plank which a carpenter was carrying, according to a very bad custom, on his head; on recovering, the poor fellow, who WAS a bit of a humourist, cried out, "That's a deal too bad,"—"As bad as board wages," said a passing footman. WONDERFUL!— Horse-racing, introduced no doubt by the English, H to eliven the vicinity of Hamburgh. lac King has conferred the honor of knighthood on Chantrev, the sculptor, an honor nobly won, we will not say hardly for/ear of a pun The Rev. Howel Jones, upwards ot twenty years curate of Bradford, VViits, has been presented by his parishioners with an nt tea service of plate, a splendid salver, and a purse of sovereigns, on his leaving that place for prefer- ment in Kent. The Duke of Wellington's umbrella sold last year at a fancy fair for ten pounds it is said the article" was in great request on a late occasion, bu„ no fair was fanciful enough to provide a fair Wel- mgton parapluits. The Princess Victoria appears o be a constant visitor at the opera, her taste for mu- tl'Ll ,°Uhtless hereditary. Her royal father, was, as •fjsaY. "passionately fond of the science." *,• hitherto unknown to ornithologists has been „pOVKer'at Hayti—its note resembles the nightin- pi n^ > P,e(,:ullarity i9' that after one bird has com- ^umber «f 7 bC J°ined by anot,ler' al"d so to the takii o- i or five> eactl addition to the orchestra jaav L™ Pa,rt' se('ond> third> fourth, or fifth, as it monv -ITu ?nd form'nS the most perfect bar- men Las "^sician—the skin of a speci- -rK t ?Cnt to the Zoological Society Museum Natural^Histf^f Rte'ydepOSitlxl at thc Cabinet of c t! ed t>v nat RoUen' a mushroom of the species sJres U tUC QigaUtic kicoperdon, it mea- t ie "y-umlerence,—what a mosque for to have been mt \wi species of wheat is said ripens fn "■'? ?*ich *ro*s and uays--—lue Citizens of Lincoln have been Ruished for the numbering Li In I ~more d,stln- than for his music CW y 3 c3aPPers"- than beef.—The smn omJoriableas™ra?ice—more blows parture of his Spanish °f Co1' ,:van3 for the de- excellent, but SaVS the 0bsener> are e-rcj made for the e0^tmentSadds the sameauthority, riiies have been exS ^W'rThe Bd^nautho- mummv, they contend f JPcrPlexed by an Egyptian sassination baked ? that WaS the v^tim of as- uinie the person—one If "hVcn~and went So ^r as to neighbourhood.—(Athtnoeum, JIners w'10 war-a'(^ hi the

DEATH OF ATHS(^^77 ™—— -Atit. Christ. I'I'E HIGH PKIEST. Mariamne, the wife of h ,°7u'lls was brother to birth, the h gh priesthood i f° whom' by r'Sht ot beautiful person, fall anrl » t!0n,sed; he was a ver-v rated the affections of the and so capti- ty rant, Herod, caused him i PU°'j t'lat the jealous him to' an ent'ertaTnme. at°J•d?Wned' H« Ued dinner, several of aft jericf,o, and when, atter in a fish-pond, Aristohnl?0 3ntS bathec' themselves bear them company h, Pr<-Vailed "pon to inio the water, but thev (*u sooner.was he plunged cording as they were di/orU j ,were 'n 11 before) uc- dipped him (by way 0f snrf y ^erod> ducked and tended) so long under waL/ n play as tlie-v Pre" actually drowned." Joseph 4»t' at^nS'^ he was POTATOES.—Dr. MITCH n r t'^ have discovered a new poui'r,° flV Y°rk"is Said is Hiialogous lo that of ihe v the "'jvver ot which which might be eaMi > e»rpi) unum wor.tanum, and Aiidre Kriegj of AugSbourB. ■,n our ul»<nates. RT. ouced dift'erent sorts of win 'S 9^a,e(^ to have pro- keeps well, very pure branriJ v,ne £ 'lr> beer «hich cattle, all from the coinuiou potato^1' 3l>d f°°d for SCR1 P'J URE TLLUSTRA o. 94. (From Hartley's Researches in Greece.) JUDGEs sii. 6.—" Then said they unto him, say now Shibboleth and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right." Tile Greeks have not the sound sh in their language, hence they are liable to be detected, like the Ephraimites. I was struck with this cir- cumstance, in learning Turkish from a Greek tutor. Pasha, he pronounced Pasa; shimdi, he called simdi; Dervish, Dsrvis &c.; Shibboleth he would of course pronounce Sibboleth. PSALM lxxx I 'I he boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wi!d beast of the field doth devour it." My friend the Rev. Mr Leeves, was proceed- ing, in the dusk of the evening, from Coustanti- uople toTherapia, passing a vineyard he observed an animal of large size rushing forth from amongst the vines, crossing the road, and taking to flight with great precipitation. The Greek surigee p who was riding first exclaimed, Wild boar! Wild hoar!"—and really it proved a wild boar, who was retreating from the vineyards to the woods. "W hat has the wild boar to do in the vine- yard ?, enquired Mr Leeves, "Oh," said the surigee, "it is the custom of the wild boars to frequent the vineyards, and to devour the grapes, and it is astonishing what havoc a wild boar is capable ofeffec!ing during a single night. What with eating and what vith trampling under foot, he will destroy an immense quantity of grapes." The propriety of the image in the 12th verse of this psalm must be familiar to all persons who have visited grape countries-All they whichpass by the way do pluck her: but the force and beauty of the succeeding figure, derived from a practice connected with the natural history of the wild boar, has probably been seldom observed. With what fatal propriety does this affecting image retain its force, up to the present moment! Still is the vine of Israel broken down, ravaged, cut down, burnt with fire. The ferocity with which their Turkish masters torment and oppress the Jews, may be compared with melancholy aptitude, to the savage tearing of the boar, and the devouring of the wild beast. May those who interest themselves in the conver- sion and salvation of this ancient people repeat with fervour the Psalmists petition. 14Rettirn we beseech Thee, 0 God of HostsLook down from Heaven, and behold and visit this vilic

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CONSE'VATIVE ASSOCIATIONS. 40 The following excellent observations are from an article in Blackwood, entitled" Conservative Asso- ciations." The whole article is well wortb an atten- tive perusal, "The gradual approximation towards Conservatism has received a verj great impulse from the events which have occurred withm the last two years, and has now spread to an exteutto which we could have hardly hoped to have seen it diffused The Radicals and Revolutionists, the deluders and deluded of mankind feel this, and dread it from the bottom of their hearts. They clo not attempt to disguise the danger. Isaac Tomkins bewails in pathetic terms the universal tendency of an the educated yonth at the Universities to Conservative principles, and fairly warns the middling orders that henceforth they must look to themselve in the struggle, for the upper classes are every day fa.hng more rapidly under the bonds of cor- ruption. retcr Jenkins reiterates the sentiment, and amidst warm eulogmms on the genius of Tomkius, bursts forth into bitter sarcasm on the Aristocratic classes, by whose vigour and energy all the fine-spun theories of the Re- volutionists are likely to be dissolved into thin air. Lord Brougham, in reviewing and praisin!r both publications, exerts all his energy to impress upon the public the paramount necessity of vigouroos exertions on the part of the lower orders t0 withstand the manifest tendency towards Conservative opinions, which has made such alarming progress among all highly educated classes of societ;. The same truth is openly avowed by the Revolutionary leaders in London who have convoked in extreme alar.r a meeting of all their party in the metro- polis to Provide the means of combating the dangerous activity of the Conservative Associations The acceptance of the helm of Government by Sir Robert I cel. and the result of. the general election, con- tributed. in a powerful manner,to invigorate aud strengthen the Conservative party throughout the3 country. For the first time since the passing of the Reform Bill, they then perceived that their cause was not hopeless that they were no longer strugglmgagainst an overwhelming current, but by a concentrated effort of the whole friends of order and virtue ill the State, the designs of the Revolutionists might yet be stayed. They are no longer a gallant band standing bravely up against an irresistible enemv, and sacrificing themselves from an heroic sense of their duty to their country, but a vast and hourly increasing party, em- bracing three-fourths of all that is excellent m the land. Herein was the great benefit which the four months' pos- session of office by the Conservatives conferred upon the country. By holding the reins of Government for that short period they evinced thcirreal power by maintaining such a struggle with the coalesced Whigs and Radicals, so soon after the Reform Bill, they demonstrated that the times were approaching when they might reasonably ex- pect the victory. What was still more important, they had an opportunity, even during that short period, of proving to the world what their real principles of government were of shewing that the vulgar clamour got up by the Revolu- tionists, that they were desirous of upholding abuses for their own purposes, were totally unfounded that they were disposed to go every length in the remedy of known evils,consistent with the preservation of existing institutions, and only resisted such further concessions to democratic power as threatened to create corruption infinitely greater than it removed, aao induce dangers a hundred times wore alarming than those it professed to obviate. The effcct of this, even though their lease of power was of such short duration, *a» to throw their opponents obviously and flagrantly into the wrong; to drive them, in dispair at their inability to discover any rational ground of complaint, into an evidently solhsh and factious opposition; to compel them to abannou all their original principles, eat all their former denunciations, and coalesce wjtj, au their bitterest enemies to reduce the descendants 0f the Russells and Cavendishes, wr.o fought and b ed to establish the Pro- testant faith, into the humble followm of a Popish Agi- tator, whose professed aim ,s the overthrow of the re- formed religion an to convert the haughty aristocrats, who so long refused to admit the great agitator to their tables, ana publicly denounced him as a common enemy in the speech from the throne, into the obsequious fol- lowers of that overbearing demagogue, who has never ceased to proclaim his intention of dismembering aud re- volutionizing the empire.

POLITICAL HE,ILTH.-Lord-D urb-am who bas been too ill to take his neat in Parliament, and to whose restoration the mild climate of the Isleof Wight was essential, is nevertheless ready, at a moment's notice, to start on a diplomatic mission to the frozen regions of the Czar. THE NEW POOR LAWS.—The board of guardians of the parish of St. George-i U-the-East on Friday issued printed forms to each of the out-door paupers, requiring1 them to furnish correct returns of each member of their several families, their situation in life, occupation, residence, &c.; the truth of the returns to be certified by two respectable housekeepers, and to be returned to the board before any further relief can be granted. [1118reooulatioll is in obedience to a receut order of the Poor Law Commissioners, and is intended to form data from which a reduction in the number of out-door paupers in this parish (now amounting to upwards of 600) will be effected.-Even- ing paper.

SUVlUAKY OF THE WEEK'S- PROCEEDINGS in PARLIAMENT « HOUSE OF LO li'DS .-THURSDAY. The Marlis of LONDONDERRY, inquired whether the levies now assembling in the Isle of Dog-s would have the protection of Lord Eliot's con- vention ? His lordship then read the decree of Don Carlos, which has appeared in the public papers, declaring that all strangers taken in arms shall be shot. He also entered into a comparative statement of the forces upon both sides, in the course of which he described the army of Don Carlos as amounting to 36,000 men. /;) Lord MELBOURNE answered that the parties engaging in the service of the vajueen of Spain would have the benefit of Lord Elio' s convention. As to the other points to which the noble marquis had referred, they were not tenable. He believed that the decree itself was a forgery. Lord DUNCA NON stated that he had received a letter from one of the Commissioners of Public Instruction in Ireland (Mr M'Dermott;, whose con- duct had been the subject of comments on a former night. The letter denied the truth of the charges then preferred aeainst him. The Bishop of EXETER said that he had received letters from Ireland, in which it was stated that Air M'Dermott had been a well known political agitator; and that, as such, he had been chaired through a town in Ireland. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought such a chairing was not of so penal a character as to dis- qualify the gentleman in question for the duty to which he had been appointed. TheMarquis of CLANRICARDE spoke to the like effect. The Duke of WELLINGTON observed that the question was, whether such an individual was a fit person for the oflice to which he had been appointed ? He thought that a Roman Catholic agitator was not the fittest person for the duty, and that the Bishop of Exeter's remarks were justifiable. Lord MELBOURNE defended the appointment. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY placed on the table, and moved the first reading of, a Bill for the better regulation of ecclesiastical benefices having no cure of souls. Lord DENMAN moved the first reading of a Bill to prevent the removing proceedings into the Kind's Bench by certiorari without bail, and to prevent parties from removing indictments from the court in which they were preferred without leave of that court. He should move the second reading on Tuesday next-Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he should, to-morrow (Friday) move the resumption of mornin; sittings on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, for the purpose of public business, so as to leave the whole of the evenings for the Committee on the Corporations Bill. The House then resolved into committee on that bill, beginning with clause 37. Sir R. iNGLIS proposed that there should be an « oath," instead of a declaration," for the Mayor and Town Council, on entering into oflice. Lord J. RUSSELL was against the multiplication of oaths, except there were absolute necessity and The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had rejoiced in the omission of an oath. J The amendment was negatived, and the clause agreed to, as were clauses 38, 39, 40, and 41. On clause 42 being proposed, Lord STANLEY moved an amendment, with the view of preventing the removal of the Town Clerk by so changeful a body as the Town Council would be. Lord HOWICK resisted it. If the Town Clerk were an efficient person, he was not very likely to be removed. To adopt this amendment would be to make that officer independent of the Town Council. Mr O'CONNELL—The question is whether the Town Clerk is to be a permanent jobber or not by being rendered independent of his employers ?' He would cease to be a servant and would become a master, if he was made independent. The noble lord has mistaken the nature of this Council. He has admitted it himself. He has said that it is a job too contemptible for this House to deal with. I should be glad to know of a job too contemptible for this house to deal with. I should be glad to know how it is possible for the noble lord, sitting where he does, to talk of a job being too contempt- ible. Perhaps the hon. gentleman on that side of the House would only think of a job in order to reject it. Lord STANLEY --I beg the hon. and learned member to explain what he means—(Cheers from the Opposition.) Mr OCONNELL-Precisely what I said.-(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Lord STANLEY-1 want to know, in plain terms, what is the meaning he attaches to the words he has now used in the face of the House, and which, in the face of the House, I demand an explanation of? I stand upon my character. My character shall not be publicly attacked by any man who will not vindicate that attack here or elsewhere. I ask the hon and learned gentlemen what he means by ad- dressing to me the expression, that sitting in the place where I now sit, I have no right to speak of any job as too contemptible for this House ? Mr O'CONNELL—I said no such thing, and I congratulate the noble lord on his extreme valour I rejoice at it. If he had taken my words and re- peated them, he would have found that there was not the least occasion for this most unnecessary display. Lord STANLEY-Then I beg the hon. and learned gentleman to repeat his words. Mr O'CONNELL—My words were what I said twice, that I should be glad to hear of any job t0y contemptible for this House to think of. Lord STANLEY-No! those were not the words. Mr O'CONNELL—Yes, they were. I was in pos- session of the chair. I have said part of the words, I meant to repeat the rem 3inder- I said I should have been glad to see any job too contemptible for this House to think of, and I added to that, that sitting at the side of the House in which the noble lord sits, no job was certainly too contemptible for the House to think of. I made that assertion, and I repeat it. Lord STANLEY again repelled the insinuation addressed to him personally, and with regard to his change of seat observed that the principles on which he dissented from the laie ministry he still maintain- ed, but (continued the noble lord) I changed my place in this House, because I wished to avoid giving or taking offence, because I felt that where I was I must hear, with regard to myself, observa- tions which in private could not be passed over, occasionally coming from those who will not justify their expressions either in public or in private. (Hear.) I wished to withdraw from such unpleasant collision, and for that purpose, and that purpose only, I sit where I do. I beg pardon of the Commit- tee. I wish to state the cause of a mere personal movement which may be interpreted into a political change of opinion, and stating that I will not refer further to observations coming from the hon. and learned member for Dublin-pronounced by whole- sale on gentlemen who happen to sit at this side of the House, and individually on myself, whom he has thought fit to select for an attack which he considers worthy the dignity and decorum of the House. I trust hon. members will feel as gentlemen and men of honor that, as a gentleman and a man of honor, I have been justified in trespassing on the Commit- tee. (Cheers.) After a few words from Lord John Russell, the Committee divided-For the amendment, 65; against it, 125. Several other clauses were afterwards adopted, and the Committee proceeded as far as the 54th clause, which was the last agreed to. The House then resumed, and leave was given to bring in several Bills. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. The royal assent was given by commission to the Indemnity Bill, the Western Australia Settlements Bill, the Sugar Duties Bill, the Corn Importation (Isle of Man) Bill, the Dominica Relief Bill, and 42 private bills. The Marquis of BUTE presented petitions from several places in Scotland, praying for additional church accommodation in that country. The noble marquis also presented a petition from Scotland against the equalisation of the timber duties- The Marquis of WliSTMEATH moved for » return of the rent-rolls of the estates of lunatics in Ireland, respecting whioh suits were pending in the Court of Chancery, together with the amount of law expenses incurred in the last three years.-Ordered- Lord BROUGHAM, in pursuance of the notice which he had given a few evenings since, presented to their lordships a Bill founded on the resolutions relative to education. The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, seeing the no- ble viscount in his place, begged leave to call his attention to the subject with respect to which he had yesterday asked a Question. He alluded to the decree of Don Carlos, the authenticity of which the noble viscount had questioned he had been favored by a correspondent with acommunicationon the sub- ject, so that he did not of himself, or of his own knowledge, aver the authenticity of the document His correspondent wrote thus My Lord, In order that your lordship may be enabled to set the minister right, I inform your lordship that I have seen myself the original decree of Don Carlos and I herewith send you a certified copy, and a translation of it." Here, then, was the original decree in Spa- nish. Now, he thought he might appeal to the noble viscount to institute an inquiry on this subject; he thought that he might, as a British soldier, urge him in the strongest manner to take effectual means to ascertain what the real construction 01 the con- vention negociatea by Lord Eliot was ? In his opi- nion a military commission ought to be sent forth- with to Don Carlos, in order to let the country know what was really the fact. Troops, it appeared, were being embodied in this country, whose destination was Spain and-knowing that the Spanish peasants were of a revengeful nature, he felt that, before those individuals went abroad, the point ought to be decided, whether the convention to which he had alluded^ and which was so admirably planned, would be carried into full effect with reference to that force. He, therefore, called on the noble vis- count to ascertain without delay what the true meaning and construction of the convention was. Viscount Melbourne returned no answer. The Marquis of WESTMEATH withdrew his mo- tion for a return of prisoners committed, for offences not bailable, to each county gaol in Ireland, from April, 1834, to July, 1835. Lord FARNHAM then moved that the return be made forthwith. Ordered. The Bishop of GLOUCESTER presented a peti- tion from a parish in his diocese, against the appro- priation of the revenues of the Established Church to any but ecclesiastical purposes. A conversation took place on the business of the session, and the proclamation of Don Carlos, after which the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COIMONS-FRIDA Y. Mr POTTER presented a petition from the eastern division of Devon in favor of the ballot. Mr H. MARSLAND presented a petition from Stockport, signed by 3,000 persons, for the repeal of the stamp duties on newspapers. CARLOW ELECTION. The SPEAKER acquainted the House that he had received a petition from the Crown-office, in Dublin, complaining of an undue election for the county of Carlow. The Speaker, attended by several members, pro- ceeded to the House of Lords to hear the Royal II assent given to various public and private Bills, for which see-Lord's report. On the Speaker's return, MrBORTH WICK presented a petition from the inhabitants of Evesham against the Corporation Retorm Bill, and praying tor the preservation of their rights and privileges. Sir W. FOLLETT presented similar petitions from Totness. Mr WILKS presented a petition from Boston, in favor of the Corporation Reform Bill. Mr H. BULWER presented a petition from the colony ot New South Wales, signed by upwards of 6,000 free settler, praying for the establishment of an elective legislative government. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Sir F. BURDETT presented a petition from the electors of Westminster, complaining of, and against, unequal rating. IPSWICH ELECTION. Lord J. RUSSELL moved, that a part of the report of the Committee on the Ipswich electioil "ill which the names of Mr Bignold, Messrs Sewell, Blake, and Co., and M r Dasent were men tioned, be read by the clerk of the House which having been done, he moved that that part of the report be refer- red to a Select Committee, and which was agreed to. Lord J. RUSSELL next proposed that Lord Ebrington, Sir E. Knatclibull, Right Hon. R, C. Fergusson, Mr Estcourt,Mr Aglionby, NI r Gladstone, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr Miles, Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, Mr Hume, and Mr J.E. Denison should form the Committee, five constituting a quorum, and moved that they be appointed.—The motion was agreed to. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that with respect to the business of the House, several Bills had been post- poned in consequence of the Corporation Bill having been considered in Committee, he had now to pro- pose in pursuance of the notice he had given, that this House sit during the remainder of the session on Tuesdays and Thursdays from twelve till thee o clock, and that the sittings be again resumed on those days at five o'clock. Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to proceed in Committee on Monday evening with the Municipal Corporation Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in answer to a question from Sir W. Follett, said that he would press on the Copyhold Bill early next session. Captain POLHILL presented a petition from the corporation of the borough of Bedford, complaining of the injuries that would be done to charities by the Municipal Corporations Bill as it now stood. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL. On the 56th clause, a long discussion arose. The clause was, with several verbal and expla- natory amendments, agreed to, the number of trustees being, on the motion of Lord J. Russell, altered from 15 to 9. Clauses 57, 58, 59, 60, and 61, were agreed to without discussion. On clause 62 being proposed, Sir F. TRENCH suggested that there was no pro- vision against the property of Protestants' advow- sons, and so forth, falling into the hands of Roman Catholics or other Dissenters, as members of the council forming the majority, and asked if the noble lord intended to make any such provision? Lord J. RUSSELL was not aware that any such provision was necessary. Men of all religious per- suasions might by law at present be members of corporations, and so administer any trust. Certainly, as the law had stood not long ago, there were penal- ties attached to the exercise of church patronage by Roman Catholics; but they were now repealed, and could not be put in force unless the penal laws were re-enacted. Sir F. TRENCH said he was conscious of the sneer directed against him by the noble lord but he would nevertheless state, that his object was to secure the property of Protestants from being admi. nistered by individuals of other religious persua- sions. He wished to have, if possible, some guard against a majority of Dissenters, of whatever deno- mination they might be, having the control in the council of property devised to the members of the Established Church; and this was the more neces- sary now, because the noble lord who presided over the course of the Bill was in the hands of a party hostile to the church. (Hear, hear.) In fact, he was in the grasp of a giant, and must be his slave or his victim. (Hear, hear, No, no ) Lord J. RUSSELL disclaimed the intention of offering any sneer in reply to the remark of the hon. gentleman. After a few words from Mr H. HUGHES, the 62d clause was agreed to. Clause 68 was next agreed to, with some verbal amendments. Clause 64, by which powers vested in trustees might be transferred to town counsellors, was next read. A long but very desultory conversation then fol- lowed but in so very low a tone that we could not collect more than an occasional remark of one or two members, the others were altogether inaudible. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that care should be taken that he rights and privileges of the Universities should suffer no diminution by this Bill. Mr LAW, upon that assurance, agreed to with- draw his amendment. Colonel SIBTHORP thought that the clause ought to be postponed for the present, and re-discussed on a future occasion. Others might be inclined to trust the noble lord, but he would not. (Hear, and laughter.) The clause, as amended, was ordered to stand part of the Bill. The G5th clause was then read by the Chairman; it provides that the Watch Committee should make regulations for the management of the borough constables. Sir J. ELLEY hoped that the Watch Committee for all boroughs returning members to that House would take care that a sufficient number of consta- bles to keep the peace should be called out when- ever an election was contested within their juris- diction. He wished this to be done in order to prevent the necessity of calling in the military. (Hear, I 2 He knew the high and manly disposition of the British army well (hear, hear), and he could declare that if there was one duty more irksome both to officers and soldiers than another, it was that which they had to perform when they were legally called upon to come into hostile collision with their iellow subjects. (General cheering from all parts of the House.) If after all precautions bad been tried and found unavailing it were found necessary to call in the military, then of course they must perform their duty; but he hoped that they never would be called in until every other means had been tried to quell the disturbance. (Cheers) The clause was then agreed to The clauses 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,71, VI, 73, 74, 75,76, 77, and 78 were then agreed to after a short discus- sion, in which some slight verbal amendments were proposed, and agreed to. The 79th clause, which proposes to make all cor- porate property and fines receivable on account of a borough fund, and provides for the salaries of re- corders, town clerks, &c. was proposed from the chair Mr W. PATTEN suggested the propriety of post- poning the discussion of this clause until all the other clauses of the Bill were settled. After a few words from Sir W. Follett and Mr Estcourt supporting this proposition, Lord J. UUSSELLsaid that he had no wish, if hon. gentlemen wished to postpone this clause now, to press it upon their consideration. The clause was then postponed. The succeeding clauses up to 87 were agreed to. Mr HARVEY said he had an amendment to move upon the 87th clause, That no person shall hold the office of recorder of a city, town, or borough, who practices at the assizes or sessions of the county in which such town or borough is situated." The ATTOltNLY-GENERALsaid he had no objec- tion to the principle of the amendment, and would agree to it if it were possible. Mr D. W. HARVEY consented to withdraw the amendment, ana tne clause was then agreed to. Clauses from 88 to 94 inclusive were next adopted without objection. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and ob- tained leave to sit again on Monday next. LIGHT-HOUSES Mr HA WES wished to know whether it was the intention of the hon. member for Middlesex to found any legislative measure on the report of the Select Committee on light-houses; and, if so, when such measure would be introduced? Mr HUME said, that he had obtained leave to in- troduce a Bill on the subject, and as the Bill was now ready, he proposed to bring it in on Monday or Tues- day next. He hoped too, that he should be able to carry it through Parliament this session. The other orders of the day being disposed of, the House adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS—MONDAY The Marquis of SALISBURY brought up the report of the Islington Market Bill, and gave notice that he should on Tuesday move that the parties be heard by Counsel at the bar. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE also intimated that he should move on Tuesday, that the report be taken into consideration. The Duke of RICHMOND brought up the report on Prison Discipline, as amended by the Select Com- mittee. and gave notice that he would move for its committal on Thursday next. Several Bills having been advanced a stage, the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY. Mr. COOPER presented the report of the Inver- ness-shire Election Committee, which declared the sitting member duly elected, and neither the peti- tion or opposition frivolous or vexatious. In reply to a question from Lord Stanley, Lord MORPETH said that he should bring in the Irish Tithe Bill to-morrow (Tuesday), and if the Corporation Reform Bill passed through Committee previously to Monday next, he should on that day move the second reading. Lord STANLEY stated the course he should adopt with regard to the Irisn lithe Bill. The Hill he understood was so prepared as to involve two great principles the one he was desirous to support, but the other, relating to the appropriation of the Church property to other than ecclesiastical pur- poses, he should take every opportunity of opposing. He would not oppose it on the second reading, but with this understanding, that when the appropria- tion clause was brought up he should take what course he might then think most suitable. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION REFORM. The Order of the Day was then read for going into Committee on the Municipal Corporation Bill. On the 79th clause being put, Sir R. PEEL said that in many instances, such as that of Doncaster, corporations held very large estates. He was desirous of knowing whether it was the intention of the noble lord opposite to permit the power to rest in the town council of alienating any property which might prove to be a clear surplus after the discharge of the ordinary corporation expenses ? I{lrd J. RUSSELL intended to introduce words to the effect that, after paying the salary of the re- corder and other similar expenses, any surplus fund should be employed for the benefit and improvement of the town. Sir R. PEEL said that it might so happen, that, with every disposition to make amendments, it was sometimes difficult to do so. He wished to direct the attention of the noble lord to a discrepancy between the bill and the schedule. In page 10, line 10, there was a portion of a clause assuring the right of voting to all burgesses whose names were inscribed on the burgess roll. The schedule provided that the property from which the qualifi- cation was derived should be described as house, warehouse, shop, or counting-house he thought that there should be also a column describing the residence. Lord J. RUSSELL agreed that such an alteration was advisable. ° Mr WILKS suggested the postponement of the clause under consideration (79). A long discussion ensued. The clause was eventually agreed to, as were also the 96th, and 97th, after a short discussiou. On the 98th clause being read, Mr C. BULLER expressed his surprise to find that the clause established a bad system of local courts. Not only was a non-resident recorder maintained, in spite of the objections which now ex- isted to that practice, prisoners being often confined in gaol for three months waiting for trial, but an incompetent Judge was provided. Mr BLACKBURNE said that his hon. and learned friend was quite mistaken as to the objects of this clause. There was nothing in it that would es- tablish any court that did not exist before. All that it would do was that were there were local courts already established it would place them under better controul, and make them more efficient than they were at present. After a few words from Mr Ewart and Mr C. Buller (the latter hon. and learned member not pressing his objection) the clause, as amended, was agreed to. On the 99th clause being put, Mr WALTER suggested that as the registrars, attorneys, and other officers of those courts were now, by the Bill, prevented from practising in them, the clause might be so worded as to prevent them practising by their clerks. Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to adopt the suggestion. The clause was then passed. The other clauses down to clause 113 inclusive, were then, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bil1- • u Clause 114 having been read, Mr MILES proposed that instead of the word "householders,"the words" inhabitant rate-payers" should be inserted. Lord J- RUSSELL had no objection to use the words "inhabitant householders," as, perhaps, words "inhabitant householders," as, perhaps, that might suit the purpose of the hon. member. After a brief discussion it was understood that the words inhabitant rate-payers" were to be in- serted in the clause. Lord J, RUSSELL at the suggestion of the right hon. member for Montgomeryshire, consented that when the inhabitants of a town petitioned the King in Council to grant them a charter of incorporation, their petition to his Majesty, in order that due notiee might be given to all the parties interested, should be inserted 111 the Gazette. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. The 115th clause, the last in the Bill, was agreed to, amid a few cheers from the Ministerial side of the House. The Committee then resumed the consideration of the postponed clauses. The first of them, clause 10, was then read, as altered, by the Chairman. The clause, as amended, was then, after a few words from Mr. Wynn and Mr Robinson, ordered to stand part of the Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL then proposed the insertion ol a clause in the place of the 30th clause, which had been postponed, to the effect that in all cases where the population of a borough exceeded 12,000, his Majesty should be empowered to divide it into two wards, for the purpose of electinff town councillors, and where the population exceeded 24,000, then into as many wards as his Majesty should think fit. Sir R. PEEL said that as there might be as many burgesses in a borough with a population of 10,000 as in one where the number of inhabitants amounted to 12,000, this restriction of the exercise of the power intended to be invested in the Crown was unwise as it was, in his apprehension, unnecessary. It might also so happen that in boroughs where the population exceeded 18,000 more than two wards would be necessary, and therefore it was that if they were to place such a power in the hands of the Crown it should be so placed as to enable the Crown to exercise a proper discretion. Many boroughs, with a less population than 10,OCO, f" w actually conducted their business by means of Avards and, for his part, he should wish to see the privileges ot < those boroughs preserved to them wherever the system had been found to work well. Lord J. RUSSELL defended the clause, and coti- tended that it wrs an object of desire that in all boroughs where the population was under 12,000 there should be only one election for the whole of the officers of the corporation. Mr GROTE was glad to find that the noble lord did not mean to make any concession to the right hon. baronet opposite, as he (Mr Grote) considered the clause which was now proposed would be a very great improvement of the Bill. Sir R. PEEL thought that establishing a minimum of rate-payers would be a very good principle to go upon, and such a test he must say would be obviously much better than if they were to de guided solely by the total number of men, women, and children. He was surprised, he must confess, to hear the hon. gentleman, the member for the city of London, con- oemning a system which prevailed in that city, and was held up in the report of the Commissioners as a perfect model of a corporation. (A laugh.) After a few words from Lord Stormont, Lord J. Russell, and Mr Rigby Wason, the clause, as amended, was agreed to. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved that the Chair- man do report progress, and in doing so stated that in consequence of the adoption of the principle em- bodied in the last clause some further arrangements as to the schedules would be found requisite. With these he proposed the House should proceed on Monday next; but as there were several clauses to be brought up he should move the Committee to- morrow at five o'clock for that purpose. In reply to an observation of an hon. member, to the effect that the second reading of the Irish Tithe Bill stood for Monday, and that it would be well if the noble lord stated whether he would proceed with that measure or the Corporation Bill on that day, Lord J. RUSSELL said he would certainly proceed with the Corporation Bill first. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit crgain to-morrow.—Adjourned. (For remainder of Parliament see Second Page.)

On Friday se'iiiiiglit a geiitlemaii accideittali'Y slipped down in Fleet-street, and put his arm through a pane of glass in the show window of an extensive liuen-draptr. The shopman ran out and demanded payment of the broken pane, which he said cost three pounds. The party offered at first five shillings, but at length agreed to give a sovereign, but pretending that he had not silver enough, tendered a 10Z. note- The proprietor of the shop, on getting hold of the uote, said I- Now I shall take three pounds;" and conse- quently gave seveu sovereigus to the gentleman, whoi pretending to be greatly annoyed, left the house, asserting that he should seek reparation in another quaiter. It was then discovered that the note was forged one.

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