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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK.

Boum or Loans. Monday, July 15. County Courts Extension Bill, reported— Factories Bill, considered in Committee ; Amendments by the Earl of Harrowby and the Duke of Richmond negatived. Tuesday, July 16. Landlord and Tenant Bill, thrown out on second reading-- Elections (Ireland) Bill, reported—Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, read a third time and passed. Thursday, July 16. Replies by the Dutchess of Cambridge and the Queen to the late Addresses of Condolence—Elections (Ireland) 1411, read a third time and passed —County Courts Extension Bill, considered in Committee.

Friday, July 19. Inspection of Coal Mines Bill, and Factories Bill, read a third time and passed.

HousE OF COMMONS. Monday, July 15. Mercantile Marine (No. 2) BM, consider- ed in Committee—Sunday Labour in the Post-office ; her Majesty's Reply to the Ad- dress—Attornies' Certificate Bill; second reading carried against Ministers, by 139 to 122—Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, considered in Committee; Amendments by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert negatived, and bill reported—Marriages Bill

passed.

Tuesday. July 16. Mercantile Marine BM, considered in Committee—Early ad- journment, on account of the Duke of Cambridge's Funeral. Wednesday, July17. Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill, considered in Committee— Smoke Prohthition Bill, opposed on second reading by Sir George Grey, and thrown out—Landlord and Tenant Bill ; debate on second reading continued till the House adjourned.

Thursday, July 18. Mercantile Marine Bill, further considered in Committee—Re- plies by the Dutchess of Cambridge and the Queen to the Addresses of Condolence —Reply of the Queen to the Address for a Monument to Sir Robert Peel—Message from the Crown respecting Provision for the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary—Royal Commission of Inquiry to the Universities ; adjourned debate re- sumed and finished ; Ministerial motion, postponing the debate to the Greek !Calends, carried by 160 to 138—Attornies' Certificate Bill, committed, against Ministers. by 105 to 103; Ministers again defeated, by 99 to 92; clauses agreed to. Friday, July 19. Mercantile Marine Bill, further considered in Committee—Rich- mond Park—Provision for the Family of the late Duke of Cambridge—Purchase of Danish Forts on the Gold Coast; vote debated, and affirmed by 138 to 42. TIME- TABLE.

CHURCH REFORMS IMPEDED.

.,n Committee of the Commons on the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, a clause was agreed to by which Deans of Chapters will be restricted from holding with their cathedral preferment any living beyond the boundary of their cathedral city, or exceeding the value of 5001. a year. Mr. Geensrorrz developed his plan for establishing a new order of Bishops. He moved a clause enacting that when 30,0001. has been provioled by pri- vate contribution towards the endowment of a see in any duitrict having a population of not less than 100,000 souls, the Ecclesiastaeal Commissioners, with the consent of the Bishop and Archbishop, may submit to Government a scheme., for a Bishopric, and may propose the appropriation of 1,5001. a year from the Episcopal fund. Complaints are made that the Bishops are now too lordly and secularized, and that this tendency becomes stronger year after

The Lords.

Hoar of Hour of Meeting. Adjournment. Monday 6h 10h On Tuesday — 6h 35m Wednesday No Sitting.

Thursday 5h 6h 20m Friday — 71. 35m

Sittings this Week, 4; Time,101, 30m — this Session, Si; —2131. 89m

The Commons.

Hours! Hour of Meeting. Adjournment,

Monday Veen , 31. lem Oh 13h 45m

Tuesday Noon .... 3,h Om

WednesdayBOOSI .... 81. On

Thursday Noon ,... 2k 56su 611 (n) 2h On Friday Noon .... 311 Oni

51. *) lh 43m

Sittings this Week, 8 ; Time, 431. 40m tbiaSessiou,121; —885h ii3m year. You can mend this only by two modes. First, by the plan followed in the case of Manchester : but the House would not appoint any more Bishops Int:L*0001. wte00l. a year; and that mode is defective in itself. Secondly, bT the plan allaying Bishops on a humbler and more restricted basis than at present. The example of Colonial Bishoprics shows that within four or Ampere of the establishment of a new Bishopric the clergy have invariably been doubled and tripled. There is a prevalent belief that it is frittering away the income of the Church to give large sums to a few and comparatively idle members of the Church ; therefore Bishops should be appointed throughout this country with such incomes as are sufficient for the purposes of hospitality and charity, yet not such as to become objects in a worldly point of view. From the various- consents required, not many of the new order would be ap- pointed ; not more, in our own time, probably, than three or four. Lord .TOMN Remus, resisted the proposal, on the grounds he has before advanced. The argument will very soon arise, if any funds are to be given for these Bishoprics, that they should be given at the expense of the existing Bishoprics : inasmuch as these will soon have less labour than at present, their incomes may be greatly reduced. He did iiot thin', they ought to give up altogether all prospect of creating such Bishoprics as those of Ripon and Manchester.

After some conversation between Lord Aux Russsii. and Mr. Gum- STONE, across the table, the amendment was withdrawn.

Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT moved a series of reaselutions with a view to re- form the constitution of Capitular bodies.

If honourable Members would look back to the statutes by which these bodies were bound, especially as they were modified by Archbishop Crammer, they would find that their duties were in strict accordance with the wants of the present times. Those duties were, to give their counsel and assistance to the Bishop of the diocese in eases of discipline ; to superintend the educa- tion of poor scholars and the training of the clergy; to teach theology, and to take the superintendence of general education. Now, he did not 'mow that he could draw up a list of objects of which we felt the want more at the present moment. Those duties had fallen into desuetude as far as cathedral bodies were concerned; and the consequence was, that we were attempting to do by voluntary societies, and by other means what it was originally in- tended should have been done by those cathedral bodies. His clauses went to secure residence, to abate the holding of pluralities, and to give the eapi- tular bodies the superintendence of the general education of the diocese. Sir GEORGB Gime opposed the clauses, as making too great and exten- sive an alteration in a bill sent down by the House of Lords, with which they have no immediate connexion. They are so important, that if pro- per for adoption they should form the subject of a separate bill. Mr. Gkalasreeez regretted that a more distinct intimation was not given by Government that this is a matter requiring careful and early examina- tion. The alleged reform of the Chapters in 1840 was no reform at all, with a slight exception. The objection to the ecclesiastical establishments, as they stand, is this—there are great emoluments to large bodies of meii without practical duties : that fundamental error has never been rectified, and the Government does not meet the objection.

On a division, the first clause was negatived, by 104 to 84—Mims. terial majority, 20. Mr. Heeireur withdrew the other clauses, and the bill was reported.

TEN Rote!. CO3CKISSION TO THE tfinvinurrins.

The debate on Mr. Hay ter's motion praying the issue of a Royal Com- mission of Inquiry into the state of the Universities and Colleges of Ox- fam', Cambridge, and Dublin, adjourned from the 23d April, was resumed on Thursday. The speeches were by no means of an interest bommen- swats with the subject; the far greater part of them consistinerf legal citation and argument upon the point whether the proposed Commission is legal or illegal. Mr. JOHN STUART WRS the foremost champion of the " illegality " objection- it will be a sufficient notice of his mass of authorities to mention, that the amendment with which he conclude-d his speech affirmed, not that the Commission would be a violation of the laws, but that the advice to issue it would tend to a violation of the laws. The "abstract legality of the Commission" was expressly conceded by Mr. Rousnaix Pavane ; and was opposed with but hypothetical inge- nuity by Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. Stuart's only participator in this view.. Sir GEOROB GREY and Lord Jorne Rossini. considered the concession of the point by Mr. Palmer a sufficient -warrant to absolve them from a laborious justification of the course Government has resolved to pursue.

One of the interesting features of the debate on the general topic was the practically progressive quality of Mr. Palmas's views on the educational duties of the Universities and Colleges,—views important as those of an influential Conservative party in the most aristocratic of the Universities; and the very- temperate tone of the persuasions which he used against the issue of the Commission.

Tracing the history of the process by which it has come to pass that the free University of Oxford in Xing Edward the First's time with its 30,000 students, has dwindled to an incorporation of Colleges to which no addition has been made for some centuries past, Mr. Palmer implied that the present state of things is largely due to the requirement that every member of the University be also a member of some one College in the University. He ventured to think that the cure of this might be found in reverting to the old system and abolishing the present monopoly—he meant the regulation of expenses. We have now a scale of living, manners, habits, and discipline which whilst approved by the _present members it would be extremely difficult to in- terfere with. They could not well begin de novo in existing institutions; but nothing would be more easy, if new Halls were opened, than to place them from the beginning under a strict and economical discipline. Let all the meals be in common—no expensive private furniture be allowed—habits all in accord- ance with the class of students likely to frequent them. Thus would they at once enlarge the benefits of the Universities and diminish the expense. He asserted that there is not the slightest foundation for the assertion that the statutes of the Colleges prohibit the introduction of new courses of study ; and with regard to the birth preferences and local preferences, on the elec- tion of fellows, &e., a just and liberal interpretation of the statutes will ge- nerally carry out the main purpose of the founders themselves. They should not forget what the Colleges have already done in this respect; and espe- cially they should compare that with what the Crown itself has not done. In the University of Oxford within the last twenty or thirty years, no fewer than twelve out of the nineteen Colleges, which were previously dose foundations, had spontaneously adopted a wiser and sounder ana more li- beral interpretation of the wills of their founders, and had vened the Col- leges, as far as the founders' intentions allowed them, to merit of every de- scription; and with respect to the others that were behind in the race of improvement, he had not the slightest doubt that if they were not unneceS- sandy alarmed, and if a spirit of resistance were not created in, their minds by ill-considered interference, they would soon follow the example of the rest of the Colleges. Contrast this with what the Crown has not done. It appeared that by the existing law, without any commission or any legislative inter- femora with the wills of the founders, the visitors of the Colleges (and the Crown was a visitor of a. great many) had the right, not indeed of always altering the statutes, but of directing how they should he acted upon, inter- preted, and administered, and of reviewing the statutes not only with re- spect to education, but with respect to everything else. They had the right to introduce any improvement consistent oath the statutes of the founders, and in correct any abases which might have crept into the administration of them. The real misfortune ill, that this power has fallen into abeyance through the neglect of the advisers of the Crown. In point of fact, some of the Colleges !abject to the visitation of the Crown are Colleges more open to exception than any of the others. It would be a useful thing if the noble Lord would suggest means by- which the Crown could institute a periodical visitation, and thereby reform such abuses as might have grown up in course uf time if it should afterwards be found necessary to go further, or that other institutions did not follow the example of the Crown, it would then be- come a question whether some legislation might not be necessary. Mr. Hos= DRUMMOND uttered some bold opinions, in has usual inde- pendent style.

The Universities are become, by lapse, totally incompetent to discharge their duties to the public at large in the way in which the public might be benefited; but the way to remedy that is not to go and meddle with their properby and their ri !eta The thing we ought to do is, either to open the Id...Date Roman Catholics and Nonconformists, or else to ip.'ve grantaof _pub- lic money to build Colleges, one for Roman Catholics and another for Non- oonformista, while we leave the degrees and honours of the Universities open to all. It is perfectly impossible to continue the Universities merely as parts of the Church Establishment, after we have destroyed that Church Esta- blishment, and when Parliament, containing so many professed enemies to the Establishment, sits, nightly in judgment upon it.

Passing over the legal arguments of Mr. Gsansrowe, we come to these passages of more general scope— The course the noble Lord was taking would tend to prevent the establish- -raent of eleemosynary foundations altogether. There is no doubt that any individual who is deliberating with himself whether he will or will not de- vote a. pc/ellen of his substance for prosecuting the objects of learning, civiliza- tion, and religion, will be -checked by the prospect that at any given time, and under any given circumstances, a Minister, who is the creature of a po- litical majority, may institute a State inquiry into the mode in which the funds he may devise are administered. Every one must think that this would be a discouragement to all eleemosynary establishments. But would it be wise to discourage them?' There was a time when it was perfectly right to paw statutes of mortmain—when the wealth of corporations was likely to threaten the industry and to absorb a great portion of the landed property * of the country. But it IS not so-now • we are now a nation developing un- exampled energies in the pursuits of trade and material wealth. Would it not be a good and farsighted policy to pursue a generous and liberal course towards those who may be disposed to rescue some part of that wealth from pursuits merely material, and devote it to the cultivation of all that is ele- vated in a human being? When he attempted to plead the cause of the English Universities, he would not deny that they had done for learning what had been on the whole less than might have been done ; but they had nevertheless done what had answered the oircumstances of the times and the exigencies of the country. It did appearto him a much wiser course for the Crown to pursue, to see what could be done to improve the Colleges over which it had a legal control, by administering the existing law, rather than to issue a Commission as proposed. If the Universities have a fault now, it is that they have too much the character of seminaries of the higher classes. Hi wanted to see them embrace a larger number of the middle classes of so- ciety. Assist them we may. The noble Lord has large means in his hands of doing good by judicious communication with the Universities; but by the noble Lord's present course, there can be no result but evil.

Lcod Jams Russnm. spoke in reply and justification of the Government intentions.

If the House of Commons would not permit the Crown to order an inquiry into these matters, they would do much to keep back the Universities in the course of improvement they are willing themselves to adopt. All the insti- tutions of this country have of late years been undergoing eheliges. Look- ing hark twenty years, we find—as regards the changes made in the Church, for instance—that, far from being destroyed, she is stronger than before, and that not from resistance to change, but from adopting reforms suited to the times and ealculated to make her mare usefuL So it should he with all our institutions. So with regard to the Universities. We should not act like foolish innovators who destroy what they cannot improve. Seeing the great advantages this innovators, possesses for the advancement of learning, in the endowments left by our ancestors, we should endeavour to make these conducive in the highest degree to the diffusion of religion, morality, and sound learning, and more worthy of our other institutions.

MT. E. IIERBERT BUNEURY and Mr. Ilurwoon spoke in support of Government; Mr. LAW in opposition. Sir GROB.GE GREY had early in the evening moved that the debate be adjourned to that day three months, Tattled withdrawn his motion in order that Mr. Stuart should have the opportunity of moving his amendment : en that amendment being withdrawn by Mr. STUART, at the close of the debate, Sir Gzoncis GREY again moved his own amendment,—suspended to make way for Mr. Stuarts,—and the House divided on the question of adjournment. The Ministerial amendment was carried, by 160 to 138; a majority of 22 favourable to the CODDIASSi.OIL PROTECTION OF FACTORY LABOUR.

In Committee of the House of Lords on the Factories Bill, the Farl of HAW:LOWEY moved to insert in the first clause the words "no child," with the view of limiting the labour of children to the extent proposed in the case of women and young persona. Children would be placed in a worse condition than their present one, by the bill as it stands ; as a fresh stimulus will be applied to the manufacturers to substitute their labour for that of women and young persona. To a certain degree the labour of adults would be interfered with, no doubt; but the present measure de- nies the frame protection to children that is given against the abuse of fe- males and young persons. The amendment was opposed by Earl GRAN.. VILLE, chiefly on the ground that it introduced a foreign and disturbing element into a controversy which the bill had good prospect of closing. Lord STANLEY also spoke with decision against it, on the same ground, that it introduced a new restriction' not called for by any large body of men, nor contemplated by the act of 1844 or 184:7.'He excepted strongly against the joint condemnation of shifts and relays defending relays, as unobjectionable in themselves, and as contemplated by and even a carry- ing out of the intentions of the Legislature expressed by the sets of 1844 and 1847. The amendment was negatived, by .58 to 25—majority 33. The Duke of RICILMOND brought forward the amendment of which he had given notice, with the object of limiting the hours of labour for women and children to ten hours a day. This was opposed by the Earl of 01,4 NVILLE and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, as a disturbance of the " compromise," or rather " the happy understanding," which the mas- ters and operatives have come to, and which the hill carries into effect ; and they used the authority of Lord Ashley's name in support of their views. The Government looks at the arrangement now mode as founded on reciprocal concessions of an equitable character, and Lord Granville iotimated, that if their Lordships should come to any resolution which would tear front the manufacture's the very small advantages which the bill proposes they should receive from the other side, it would be impos- sible for her Majesty's Government to carry on the bilL Lord STANLEY cnmeAhled of this unconstitutional threat that Ministers will abandon the measure' contended that there has been no compromise ; and declared that if the bill pass in its present shape, the consequence will only be renewed agitation and further delay in a settlement of the question. The Duke of RICHMOND declared, that if Minis- ters should throw the bill overboard, he would himself take it up in that House, andshould easily prevail on his friend Lend John Manners to take it up in the House of Commons. The Bishop of Iltrost would carry out consistently those views which Lord Ashley had formerly urged him to labour for, rather than assist to foment the dissatisfaction which the bill will cause among the factory population. The Bishop of Maw- mtrareit came to a conclusion opposite to that of Lord Stanley, who had appealed to him ; holding that the present measure is the best that under all the present circumstances can be passed by both Houses of Parliament. The Bishop of OXFORD supported the amendment ; deeming the bill as tin- amended to be a breach of sacred compact, and an act of deliberate injus- tice more calculated to produce disaffection in the minds of Englishmen than open violence. On a division, the amendment was negatived, by 52 to 39—Ministerial majority 13. Thus the bill passed unaltered through the Committee.

LANDLORD AND TENANT RELATIONS.

On the motion by Lord PORTMAN to read a second time Mr. Fusee e. Landlord and Tenant Bill, Lord Brarnicerr moved that it be read a second time that day six months; the bill being so objectionable that it is not worth going into Committee upon. Lord Bnononsm said, the first clause contained an enactment with respect to powers of leasing by tenants in tail, which was quite opposed to all law. He was afraid that the bill could not be amended in Committee se as to make it at all useful. Amend- ment carried without division : so the bill is lost.

TENANT LAW IN IRELAND.

On the proposed second reading of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved the amendment that it be read that day three months. It is one of several bills sent down from the other House, the object of which may be described to be to facilitate extermination ; and this at a time when the tenantry of Ireland are calling for a just measure of relief and protection, which will not be granted. By the first clause, a tenant-at-will may be ejected without notice ; by the sixth clause, if a tenant cut his grain on Sunday, or between sunset and sunrise,—and during the king harvest- moon nights, it must be very often cut then,—he may be lined ten pounds and imprisoned twelve months. "The bill professes to be 'to amend and improve the relation!' of landlord and tenant'; but there is not a clause in it to do any justice or give any relief to the tenitnt." Mr. Bawler deemed the restriction on the cutting of grain between sun- set and sunrise a monstrous interference with the freedom of the agricul- tural population. With an little time for deliberation to pass any mea- sure giving additional powers to the landlords in Ireland, when so bad a spirit exists on both sides, would be very ill-advised indeed. As the Go- vernment bill stands over, the whole landlord ansl tenant question should be deliberated upon next session. Mr. ANSTEY and Mr. Hums concurred in the recommendation. to postpone the subject till next session, and the former moved the adjournment of the debate to that day week. The measure had been defended by Mr. G. A. Heacumon and Mr. S. Srtrearr, when Sir Wimmet SOMERVILLE rose and threw his shield over it.

He deemed it a measure equally for the benefit of the tenants and land- lords, though there might be objection to some of the clauses. There has been a repetition of outrages in Ireland5 and be asked the House to read the -bill a second time in the hope of relieving the teuantry of Ireland from many of the harsh and distressing modes of proceeding which it is now in the power of the landlords to put in force against them. He would not insist on his own opinions of the first clause, but leave the matter open for discussion in the Committee ; still less would he urge the adopticua of any clauses likely to prove harsh or severe.

The question being put to adjourn the debate, Mr. E. B. Rome made

a speech against the blil, and then continued to make several "observations on subjects only incidentally connected with the question under dis-

cussion," till six o'clock arrived; when the SPEAKER adjourned the House. AITORNLES' CERTIFICATES : Kusistentsit DEFEAT.

Moving the second reading of his Attornies' Certificates Bill, Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR called attention to the changed position of his meas sure. It was introduced in February; discussion was postponed at the request of the Secretary to the Treasury till after the fingurial statement ; and six weeks after that statement, on a resumed debate, the House de- termined, though the whole strength of Government was opposed to the step, that the bill should be introduced. Lord Robert hoped that resolu- tion woultIllOt LOW be rescinded. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day three months : he deprecated the canvassing system to which recourse had been had to secure the assent of the MAIM. There are thirty-five claws of things subject to licence-duties, and the total of those duties is 1,200,0001.: in support of this bill it should be shown that this particular duty is the most objectionable of all these duties ; but there is no dol..% that there are many whose repeal would be far more important to the public than this one. It is disagreeable to resist the solicitation of a personal friend, but that is a duty the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer has frequently to perform • and it is no less the duty of

public

the House to disregard these personal interests intim a ground can he shown for yielding to them. Mr. Mouriros8t,r7n Base, and Mr. MUNTZ, supported the second rending; Mr. Goytisolo.: sup- ported the amendment., with sympathetic Ex-Chancellor's arguments ; and Mr. BRIGHT supported Sir Charles Wood, in the hope that these du- ties must be included in a general revision of taxation, which must take place next session. On a division, the amendment was negatived, by 139 to 122—majority against Ministers, for the second reading of the bill, 17. Read a second time.

Ministers were again defeated on this bill on Thursday ; when Lard ROBERT GROSVENOR IROVLI1 its consideration in Committee; and the

CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that such consideration be post- poned to that day three months : the House negatived the Ministerial amendment, by 106 to 103—majority 2. In Committee, the Government renewed the struggle, and succeeded in modifying a clause seemingly in- tended for the sole advantage of the Law Society,—providing that at- tornies should pay 10s. in lien of the ls. 6d. at present levied on the re- gistration of that certificate whose duty of 12/. it is the object of the bill to remit On this point the Government were supported by majorities of 130 to 70 and 124 to 68. Encouraged by this improvement, Mr. Hurr moved on their behalf that the Chairman report progress : after some in- dignant expressions at this way of attempting to burke the measure, a division took place, in which Ministers were again unsuccessful—the motion to report progress was negatived by 99 to 92. The clauses were then agreed to, without further hinderance for that day.

COPYHOLD Enrasarcsisinrearr BILL.

Opposition to the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill was renewed by Sir GEORGE SrarmrLAND, Mr. Mumnos, and others, on the motion by Mr. AGLIONBY to consider the bill in Committee. It is not objected to con- vert copyhold tenures into freehold tenures : the bill will not do this ; it will only commute copyhold rents, &c., and do that in an unjust man- ner. The bill looks as if brought in to meet a particular case. Mr. AGLIONBY complained of the canvassing, and of the apathy which pre- vents Members from reading his bill, and finding out the character of the misrepresentations of its nature. It expressly provides for en- franchisement. The amendment to read the bill that day three months was negatived, by 49 to 40. In Committee, an amend- ment by Mr. MULLINGS, that all manorial rights should be commuted by the Copyhold Commissioners, was opposed by Mr. AGLIONBY, as too large and varied. It was supported by Sir GEORGE Srarcniaxn, with the view of "sweeping away all the remnants of copyhold tenure" ; and by Mr. Hest; and Sir BENJAMIN HALL—after "mines and mi- nerals" had been excepted, in order to "prevent a good deal of opposi- tion "—as a step towards the removal of copyhold annoyances. Rejected, by 55 to 47. Mr. HENLEY then moved, that enfranchisement shall only take place on the application of three-fourths of the tenants in number and value; and this proposal was carried, by 74 to 44. Mr. AGLIONBY adhered to his mutilated bill, and was urging on the clauses, when Sir BENJAMIN HALL moved to report progress. After SODIS parley, Mr. AGLIONBY yielded to this course, though the effect of it would be to " throw the bill over for this session." Progress was reported, and leave given to sit again next Wednesday.

PROHIBITION OF SMOKE.

The second reading of the Smoke Prohibition Bill was moved by Mr. BANRES, with a recapitulation of the case justifying legislation. Among his new statements was one, that the guardian of the Berlin Pic- ture Gallery, who was examined before the Committee, has lately revisited our National Gallery, and he says that he has not language to describe the change that has taken place in the pictures since he visited them some years ago ; he might almost say they are destroyed by the atmosphere. The chimney of the baths and washhouses behind the gallery daily pours down into the gal- lery a new infusion of smoke, which is injuring the pictures so seriously that many members of the Committee are impressed with the absolute ne- cessity for removing them entirely. With regard to the injurious effect of smoke on the pubhe health, that is quite established in the opinion of the medical faculty ; but even if that point be doubtful, the bill is a just effort of legislation ; for, according to Lord Mansfield, it is not necessary in order to constitute a legal nuisance that the air should be made unwholesome—it • is a nuisance anyhow "to render the enjoyment of life and property uncom- fortable." It is not a sufficient answer to say, that the means of abating the nuisance—by use of fuel which does not generate smoke, or use of appara- tus which consumes smoke—would be somewhat expensive to the manufac- turers ; those persons must pay some regard to the comfort of the persons around them.

An amendment, to read the bill a second time that day three months, was moved by Alderman Corniaisn ; who has tried an invention at his works in Staffordshire, and only succeeded in bringing upon himself the prospect of paying for a failure or paying for a lawsuit. Another experi- ment is proposed to him, which would cost him 30/. for each of his fur- naces, or about 4,000/. in total, and after all that experiment may turn out no better than the many others he has made. Mr. Mini= doubted whether smoke can be got rid of, as some suppose : the bill seemed to him drawn by people who know nothing of the subject, and to be unjust. The House was about to divide, when Sir GEORGE GREY cautioned it, that even if it sanctioned the principle of putting an end to "what is called the smoke nuisance," it is doubtful whether this bill, so like its predecessor of last session, will effect the object. He understood that the act obtained for Manchester is not found to be operative. It is of no use to proceed now, without prospect of succeeding this year; "and, having regard for the time of the House, he must object to its being further oc- cupied with this bill." On the suggestion of Mr. MACKINNON, Mr. BANTERS would not proceed against the opinion of the Government; such a measure could not and ought not to be carried against them : he hoped they would consider the matter. So the bill was cast aside.

SUNDAY POST-OFFICE LABOUR.

Lord MAncus HILL conveyed to the House of Commons her Majesty's reply to the address voted by the House as an amendment on Mr. Locke's motion on Sunday Post-office labour—

"I have received your address, praying that I will cause an inquiry to be made whether the amount of Sunday labour in the Post-office might not be reduced without completely putting an end to the collection and delivery of letters on Sundays; and I have given directions that such an inquiry shall be instituted."

THE Dunn OF CAMBRIDGE.

At the moment when the House of Commons was about to separate af- ter the morning sitting on Tuesday, with the usual understanding to meet again at five, Mr. Fitorms Sean rose and moved that the House should pay a tribute to departed worth, of veneration to the illustrious prince whose virtues had endeared him to the people of this country, and whose mortal remains had been that day consigned to their last resting-place. Major BERESFORD seconded the motion. After a pause, Mr. LABOUCHERE rose and expressed his regret that notice had not been given of the inten- tion to submit the motion. Of course every member of the Government would have every desire to pay every practicable mark of respect to the memory of one so generally beloved as the late Duke of Cambridge. But the House of Lords had not adjourned, and that made him a little doubt- ful about acceding to what might be inconsistent with precedent How-

ever, as the day was not a Government day, the House itself was more particularly interested to decide. It might he better to postpone the mo- tion till five o'clock, when there would be a more numerous attendance. Mr. &Derr deemed the House in its present state fully competent to de- cide. Mr. LABonensaz acceded to what appeared to be the general feel- ing, and the adjournment was carried without a dissentient voice.

"PROVISION" FOR THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE Paniness Mawr.

A message from the Crown was presented by Lord Joins RusszLL at the bar of the House of Commons, on Thursday. The Seem= read it—

"Victoria Regina. Her Majesty being desirous, upon the decease of her late uncle, of making competent provision for the support and maintenance of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and of the Princess Mary, re- commends the consideration thereof to her faithful Commons, and relies on the attachment of the Howe of Commons to adopt such measures as may be necessary."

Lord JOHN RussELL gave notice, that he would on Friday move that the message be taken into consideration before the order for Supply.