11 FEBRUARY 1865, page 1

News Of The Week.

• P ARLIAMENT met on Tuesday, but the week has been very dull. The Queen's Speech, which was read by commission, was as uninteresting as usual, and more than usually......

A Joint Committee Appointed By The Benches Of Each Of

the four Inns of Court have decided by a majority of one (12 to 11) that ordained clergymen shall not in future be excluded from the Bar. The great authority in favour of the......

The Only Pretence At A Party Debate Was In The

House of Lords. The Earl of Charlemont moved the Address in a speech the exordium of which, a somewhat profuse apology for making it, would have furnished a more appropriate and......

The Debate On The Address In The Commons Was Intolerably

dull, no speaker of any eminence uttering a word. The mover of the Address, Sir H. Williamson, made the Speech a little more watery by his paraphrase ; and his seconder, Mr.......

Sir Fitzroy Kelly Has Come Out In The Part Of

eminent agricul- turist,—a part which, like most other parts, he plays well. He took the chair at a great Anti-Malt Tax meeting at the Free- masons' Tavern on Wednesday. He was......

The King Of Italy, By The Advice Of His Ministers,

left Turin on the 3rd inst. for Florence. We have explained the reasons and the results of this unexpected step in another place, and need only add here that there is no......

A Report Of The Debate In The Diet Of Nobles

for the pro- vince of Moscow on an address to the Crown has reached Lon- don. The principal speaker was Count Orloff, Grand Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor, and......