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Hones op Loans, Monday, June 24.-Adjournment of the House in consequence of the Death of Lord Campbell. Tuesday, June 25.-Royal Naval Reserve ; Duke of Somerset's Settlement. Thursday, June 27.-The Turner Pictures-Paintings in the Peers' Robing Room. .Friday, June 28.-Accession of Abdul Az1z -French Occupation of Northern Savoy.

HOUSE cis COMMONS, Monday June 24.-Derryveagh Evictions; Mr. Scully's Mo- tion--Canadian Reinforcements; Lord Palmerston's Statement-Committee of Sup- ply; Civil Service Estimates. Tuesday, June 25.-Forced Labour for Suez Canal; Mr. Griffith's Question and Lord John Russell's Answer-London Coal and Wine Dues Continuance Bill; Mr, Ayrton'a Instructions to the Committee-The Enfield Rifle; Mr. Vivian's Motion- Committee of Supply ; Army Estimates. Wednesday, June 26.-Masters and Operatives Bill; second reading negatived- Labourers' Cottages Bill passed through Committee-Jersey Court Bill withdrawn- Votes for Disqualified Candidates Bill; debate adjourned. Thursday, June 27.-Blockade of Granadian PortsLord John Russell's State- ment-East India Council Bill, East India Chil Service Bill, and East India High Court of Judicature Bill, passed through Committee-Courts of Justice Building Bill read a third time and passed. Fr day, June 28.-Morning Sitting, Irremovable Poor Bill in Committee-Evening Sitting-Garibaldi Society for the Unity of Italy ; Mr. B. Co^...hrane's Motion with- drawn.

MONDAY, JUNE 211H. House of Lords.

Disant or LORD CAMPBELL.-Earl GRANVILLE rose, in a very full House, to move that their Lordships should adjourn for that day, as a mark of respect to the memory of the Lord Chancellor, in considera- tion both of his personal qualities and his position as Speaker of their Lordships' House. The case itself having no precedent, there was no precedent for the motion ; but he was convinced that it would meet with their Lordships' unanimous assent. The motion was seconded by Lord BRoutonam, who on behalf of the profession bore testimony to the learning, experience, and industry of' the noble and learned Lord.

After a few words to the same effect from Lord ST. LEONARDS, the motion was agreed to.

House of Commons.

THE K2/farm:non. MUSEUM.-Lord W. GBAHAM (Herefordshire) asked the Viee-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether the schools and residences at the Kensington Museum were to be erected after the design of Captain Fowke ; and whether the commencement of that style of ornamental architecture would not necessitate its adoption throughout all the buildings.

Mr. LoWE said that Captain Fowke's plan would be adopted, but• that it would not determine the style of the rest of the buildings, LOCOMOTIVES ON PUBLIC ROADS.-Mr. GRIFFITH (Devizes) called. the attention of the Home Secretary to the late accident on the Hampstead-road, caused by the horses of an omnibus taking fright at a locomotive steam-road-carriage ; and asked whether he was of opi- nion that such locomotives could safely run on public roads. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that the newspaper accounts of the accident in question were substantially correct, but that in the present state of the law the only remedy, except a civil action brought by the suf- ferers from accidents, was by an indictment for a nuisance.

EXPORTATION OF SALT TO FB.ANCE.-Sir J. PAXINGTON (WOMBS- tershire 1 asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any arrangement had been made with the Government of France for the admission of British salt into that country. Mr. MILNER • GIBSON replied that no arrangement had yet been made, but that the French Government were conducting an inquiry into the question as affecting their internal dues, which there was. reason to believe would be followed b G. a reduction of the duty. THE CASE OF Mn. HARMER.-Sir . C. LEWIS stated that in con- sequence of a communication which he had received from Mr.,Arnold, he felt it due to him to say that though it was true that the police• were unwilling to bring the second information against Mr. Harmer, he was not at the time aware of that reluctance.

THE DE RRYVEAGH EVICTIONS. -This subject was brought before the in the form of a motion made by Mr. SCULLY (Cork) for an address to the Crown, praying for an inquiry to be held as to the fitness of Mr. Adair, the landlord in the case, to remain on the Com- mission of the Peace. After asserting the power of the House to address her Majesty on such a subject, the honourable member stated that on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of April twenty-eight houses on the property of Mr. Adair were, by his direction, unroofed or levelled, and forty-seven families, consisting of two hundred and forty-four persons, were evicted. Mr. Adair had brought serious charges against the inhabitants of the district in justification of his conduct, and had represented himself as the victim of a regular system of Ribbon terrorism and outrages. He challenged him to prove any one of those charges, or to bring any of the outrages he complained of home to any one connected with the Derryveagh property, and denied that any trace of Ribbonisin existed in Derryveagh. lie then went at length into the nature of the fee farm rents purchased by Mr. Adair in the Encumbered Estates Court,, the right of sporting over which; had been the cause of disputes which had led to the eviction in ques- tion. What Mr. Adair had complained of as an attack on himself by armed men whom he recognized as inhabitants, was, in fact, a re- -instance by several of the tenants to Mr. Adair's claim to the right of sporting under the fee-farm rent. As to the murder of Mr. Murray, the steward, he contended there was no ground whatever for laying it to the charge of the tenants. Mr. Adair's charge as to the malicious destruction of his sheep had also fallen to the ground. As a landlord himself, he felt it his duty to afford Mr. Adair an opportunity of clearing himself. The honourable member concluded key moving a formal resolution.

Mr. HENNESSEY (King's County) seconded the motion on the ground that in taking the law into his own hands, Mr. Adair had, Ipso facto, accused the Executive of neglect, and that such an accusa- tion ought to be met by inquiry. Pried facie, a great inhumanity had been committed, two hundred and forty-four persons, of whom a hundred and fifty-nine were children, had been turned out of doors on a bleak mountain-side.

Mr. CONOLLY (Donegal) spoke strongly in vindication of the right of landlords to protect themselves against the combinations and ter- rorism on the part of their tenants. Having himself served on the grand jury for ten years, he was able to say that whatever the state of five-sixths of the county might be, the immediate neighbourhood of Derryveagh was well known as the most criminal in all Ireland. Every assize he had attended there was some fearful crime which could not be brought home to the perpetrators in consequence of the terrorism of the Ribbon Society. English and Scotch members could. scarcely credit the extent to which the organization of that society was carried in Derryveagh. It paralyzed all law, and defied all detec- tion. Mr. Marshall, a previous proprietor of the estate, had been murdered in the presence of two hundred witnesses, who allowed the murderers to walk quietly away. A bailiff of Mr. Marshall's was shot, and then Mr. Adair's steward was murdered. A Mr. Moore was cut to death with reaping-hooks, close to his own house. Mr. Adair's own life had been repeatedly threatened, the power of the Ribbon Society was daily increasing through impunity, and he thought great credit was due to the proprietor for taking the manly and courageous course of resisting the system to the utmost. Mr. Burr (Youghal) qaoted the testimony of both the Protestant rector and the Roman Catholic priest as to the harmless and inof- fensive character of the people of Derryveagh ; and protested with warmth against less justice being given to Ireland than would have been dealt out to the natives of India or New Zealand. Mr. .LoNopiELD (Mallow) urged upon the consideration of the Hpuse the provocation which Mr. Adair had received, and the cer- tainty that in more than one case of murder the guilty parties, were well known to numbers of the inhabitants, who refused to give up their names.

Mr. IiilliefloN attacked Mr. Adair personally as a "new land- jobber," in distinction from "a gentlemanly landlord?'

Captain JERVIS (Harwich) called the attention of the House to the report of a committee which sat three or four yearsago, container evidence of the malicious destruction of six hundred or seven hundred sheep within four miles of Derryveagh; and quoted from an address of the Roman Catholic Bishop words strongly directed against the perpetrators of the outrage. Mr. CARDWELL said that the issue before the House was a very narrow one, viz. whether the Crown had neglected its duty in not

superseding Mr. Adak from the commission of the peace. He `believed that Ribbonisin did still exist in Ireland, but that Mr. Adair had certainly exaggerated the state of things in Derryveagh when he represented ordinary sporting disputes as forming part of an organized system of intimidation. The question was not whether Mr. Adair had exercised his legal rights to the satisfaction of Government, but

whether he had been acting within the limits of those rights. If he had been, it would be laying down a most dangerous principle for Government to supersede him. He (Mr. Cardwell) hoped, therefore, that the House would negative the motion. The resolution was then put, and negatived without a division. VOTES ON ACCOUNT.—MT. AUGUSTUS SMITH (Truro) Wagmoving & resolution directed against the practice of passing votes on account, especially so late in the Session, when he was reminded by the

Speaker that the motion "that the Speaker do now leave the chair' had been carried, and that he was consequently out of order.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA.—Sir J. FERGUSSON (Ayrshire) drew the attention of the House to the detachment of three thousand men which was to set sail for Canada the next day, a step which he thought demanded some explanation. He considered the proposed force large enough to be considered as a demonstration, and yet too small to be of any actual service. From the ostentatious manner in which it was despatched, it could only be regarded either as a challenge to the Americans, or an insult to the loyalty of the Canadians. He also alluded to the facilities for desertion which would be offered in Canada.

Lord PA.LMERSTON expressed his surprise at the insinuations which the honourable baronet, himself an officer in the army, had chosen to convey against that service with reference to the probability of exten- sive desertion. He was neither apprehensive of an invasion from the United States, fully occupied as they were, nor distrustful of the loyalty of the Canadians. The despatch of the troops was simply a measure of ordinary precaution, which Government would have been much to blame had they neglected. The honourable baronet had admitted the necessity of sending out some reinforcements ; and he had effectually answered his own arguments against their excessive numbers, by com- plaining in the same breaththat they were not half strong enough. A great deal had often been said against troops being crowded on board small and inconvenient transports, bat he believed it was the first time Government had been found fault with for sending them out in the largest and fastest transports to be bad. The honourable baronet had also admitted that they could not be sent out in winter; they must therefore go in summer. In conclusion, the noble lord repeated his disclaimer of having any object Whatever in despatching the troops in question to Canada, but the most ordinary precaution, always essential In a country contiguous to another country where disturbances exist. Mr. DISRAELI said the House could not be diverted from the real point they were to consider by the plausible superficialities of the noble Lord. He concurred with Sir J. Fergusson that the step which Government had taken could only be regarded as an act of policy con- sequent upon the breaking out of the Americau disturbances; and, as such, neither as sound nor wise policy. The only inference which the people of America would draw from the step was, that the English Go- vernment were looking forward with suspicion to contingent hostilities with the United States.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.—Sir ROBERT PEEL (Tamworth), in asking the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department how far a renewal of hostilities between Spain and Morocco would affect British trade, especially at Gibraltar, animadverted warmly on the ambitious and aggressive spirit manifested by the Spanish Government throughout the negotiations for the payment of the indemnity. Lord JOHN RUSSELL defended the Spanish Government, and stated that, as the Moors bad distinctly refused payment of the indemnity, there was no course open to Spam, consistent with her dignity, but to enforce the execution of the treaty. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.—In Committee of Supply, the question of votes on account was again brought forward by Mr. SMITH, who moved that the Chairman report progress. The motion was negatived by 118 to 99, and the House adjourned.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH.

House V Lords.

ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.—The Duke of SOMERSET, in moving for a copy of the regulations under which masters and mates in the mer- chant service may be enrolled as officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, showed the great deficiency of junior officers in the Royal Navy, and stated the reasons which had induced Government to adopt the plan of creating a Royal Naval Reserve from the merchant service. Of eight hundrd and fifty-five lieutenants now on the active list, only one hundred and fifty were unemployed, and of that number only twenty- five were available for active service. Oar reserve of lieutenants, therefore, was only twenty-five. Their number could not be increased by promotion of mates, as the latter had always been promoted imme- diately on being reported by their captains as fit. The objection to the entry of a greater number of cadets was, that it would injure the ser- vice by diminishing the chances of promotion, and, during peace, pro- duce a large list of unemployed, and therefore inefficient officers. The number of admirals on the active andretired lists now was three hundred and nine of whom only twenty were actually employed, whereas at the 'Inclusion of the war in 1816, it was only two hundred and thirty-five. The list had therefore been increasing, and with it the pressure on the

tax-payers. The same might be said of the list of captains. The charge for the reserved and retired lists—omitting pensions, surgeons, and paymasters—had increased from 205,000% in 1851 to 442,000/. in 1861. Exclusive of marines, it was this year 346,0001. The Govern- ment scheme would supply the deficiency without either crowding the junior ranks or increasing the dead weight of the retired list. Officers in the new service would retire with the higher honorary rank; but would not be called upon to serve in it. If wounded, they would he entitled to the same compensation as officers of the navy.

House of Commons.

LONDON Coax AND WINE DUES CONTMANCE BILL—On the ques-

tion that this bill should go into Committee, Mr. Amon (Tower Hamlets) moved the first of a series of instructions to the Committee framed with a view to defeat the object of this measure, which he as- serted was to alienate the coal and wine dues from the purposes of metropolitan improvement to which they had been devoted for some hundred years, and hand them over as a free gift to the Corporation of London.

Mr. CUBITT (Andover), the Lord Mayor, briefly oontradicted some of Mr. Avrton's statements. Sir G. C. LEWIS denied that the instruction moved by Mr. Ayrton had the remotest connexion with the bill then before the House, which he defended.

After a short discussion, in which several of the metropolitan mem- bers took part Mr. Ayrton's first instruction was put and negatived by 160 to 5. The others were then successively negatived without divisions.

The House proceeded with the consideration of the clauses of the bill until the sitting was suspended.

FORCED LABOUR. FOR THE SUEZ CANAL—In the evening, in reply to Mr. GRIFFITH (Devizes), Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the Go- vernment had some time since received information from Her Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt that M. de Lesseps had obtained an order from the Pasha sanctioning the employment of ten thousand natives on the canal by forced labour. Upon this, representations were made to the Porte that the system of forced labour was contrary to the agreement with England, but he was not able positively to state whether it had yet been discontinued. The noble lord also announced to the House the intelligence of the death of the Sultan, which he had just received. ENFIELD RIFLER—Mr. Vivian (Glamorgan) moved for a Select Committee to inquire whether a more efficient weapon than the Enfield rifle might not be provided for her Majesty's forces without additional cost or any serious inconvenience to the service. The honourable member went minutely into the details of the controversy between the advocates of the Enfield and Whitworth rifles, and con- tended that with regard to range, accuracy, and cost, the latter was far the superior. The machinery for the manufacture of the Enfield rifle was easily adapted to that of the Whitworth ; and as votes of 760,0001. had been asked for this year for small arms, he thought it would be better to make the change at once than go on producing a confess- edly bad rifle. He feared that the committee which reported in favour of the Enfield had not acted impartially. Mr. TURNER (Manchester) seconded the motion.

Mr. T. G. BASING (Falmouth) said that the cost and inconve- nience of the change would be much greater than Mr. Vivian had represented. Besides, the Ordnance Select Committee was perfectly competent to advise the Secretary of State upon such points. He thought that a committee of the House would have neither the power nor the time to investigate the matter. He opposed the motion on the part of Government.

Mr. NEWDEGATE (Warwickshire) thought that the sooner some competent tribunal was appointed to investigate such matters the better. Mr. W. Richard's breach-loading rifle was said to be superior even to the Whitworth. That was a point which ought certainly to be set at rest.

Captain JERVIS (Harwich) opposed the motion on the ground that the House had no power to decide what arm should be given to the service.

Lord ELCHO (Haddington) supported the motion, and thought that a committee of the House could be found to give a fair and impartial decision on the subject. Lord PALMERSTON wished to assure the House that he was aware of the great importance of providing the army with the best possible weapon, but his opposition to the motion rested on the ground that the inquiry proposed was of a character much fitter for a department of the Government than a committee of the House. He thought there.had been too great an inclination lately on the part of the House to usurp the privileges of the Executive. lie Government would do their duty in ascertaining what was the best weapon, and, when dis- covered, deciding whether its superiority was sufficient to justify a change in the equipment of the army. Government was actually engaged in the inquiry. Mr. VivreN expressed himself satisfied with the result of the dis- cussion. He was content to leave the matter in the hands of Go- vernment under their pledge to inquire at once.

The motion was then withdrawn.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY — ARMY ESTIMATES. — On the vote of 690,1591. for barracks, being proposed, Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE (Lis- keard) took the occasion too into the history of " that monument of extravagance," Aldershott. The original vote for Aldershott had been granted on the express understanding that it was to be a camp for periodical exercise during the summer months; but it had been since converted into a permanent barrack, and since then, money had been wasted in every conceivable way. First of all the site was a swamp and had to be drained by the B.oyalFaigineers, who 'lug holes in all directions only to fill them up again. Then a civil engineer was em- ployed to get water from two miles off, at an expense of 26,000/. The ground was so bad that it cost 12,000/. to gravel it. Then came the vote for temporary huts, 175,0004. They were neither air-tight nor water-tight, and required to be covered with patent felt at an expense of 14,000/, but even then they let in water, and had to be tarred at. a still further expense. At Aldershott alone, the expense of erecting these temporary huts, since 1855, had been 196,0007, and they were

ought to be put an end to. tion at Kensington as they possibly could be and that no danger, but After a long and discursive conversation, daring which Lord Pal- on the contrary immense advantage, resulted from their being exhibited merston " contradicted every opinion Mr. Osborne had uttered, and by gaslight. The recommendations of the noble lord, however, should challenged him to prove his statements," the vote was agreed to. receive every attention.

MASTERS AND OPERATIVES BILL.—The adjourned debate on the thanked the noble lord for having brought the subject before the second reading of this Bill, to which Sir G. C. Lewis had moved an House, but he could not say he had listened with unmixed satisfaction amendment "that the bill be read a second time this day three to the statement of his noble friend the President of the Council. months," was resumed by Mr. AYRTON (Tower Hamlets), who said With regard to the general question of bequests to the nation, he the bill, which was a reproduction of a measure previously approved thought the most scrupulous fidelity in carrying out the presumed by a Select Committee and passed by the House, was intended to wishes of the testators should be observed, both on account of the remedy the deficiencies of the statute of 1824, which was too oomph- moral effect of a public example of good faith, and as an encourage- cated to give sufficient facilities for arbitration. The main difference ment to future collectors and artists who might be stimulated by such between the two acts was that the latter did not permit the appointment noble examples to follow them. As to the particular bequest of Mr. of an arbitrator until a dispute had actually arisen. Some of the parts Turner, it was a noble gift, showing to what a point British art had of the bill which had created the greatest opposition were taken lite- been carried in our days by the genius and persevering industry of one ratim from the existing Act. The bill had been framed at the request man. Mr. Turner's distinctly expressed wish was to have a separate of large bodies of working men, as the best means of providing a gallery for his pictures, and it could not be said that Government had tribunal for the settlement of disputes, easy of access, and simple in carried out that wish at present. operation. He was surprised at any opposition to the bill from those Lord MONTEAGLE feared that the pictures were exposed to danger who were continually claiming a greater share of political .power for from the gas, and did not think that private individuals would like to the working classes, because there could be no better training for the run the same risk with their own collections.

exercise of that power than, by means of such a bill as this, to allow Lord ELLEssamaz would have no objection to exhibit his pictures by them to manage their own affairs, and thereby make them understand gaslight.

how difficult a matter goverment was. THE PEERS' ROBING Roost —Lord REDESDALE moved for the a_p- Mr. HARDY (Leominster) objected to the bill as ineffectual for pointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the progress of the . the accomplishment of the objects proposed. The decisions of the wall-painting in the Peers' Robing room, with a view to ascertain how Councils to be appointed under the bill would only be binding on those soon there was a probability of the room being ready for their lord- workmen who had taken part in their election. Workmen were so ships' use or whether the room might not be made available before continually changing their residences, that anything like a registry of the clt.Pmpletion of the paintings. He wished it to be understood that voters would be impossible. On the ground that if passed the bill beyond the complaint of dilatoriness, he made no imputation against

would be totally useless, he should support the amendment. the artist.

"sic volo, sic jubeo" of the Home Secretary. The Solicitor-General The motion was then agreed to, and their lordships adjourned. showed by his speech he did not understand the question. He said

the Act of 1824 was sufficient, but he ought to have known that the THUBSDAY, JUNE 27.

dislike of workmen to having the arbitrators appointed by magistrates House of Commons.

virtually rendered the Act of 1824 inoperative. NEW GRANADA.—Mr. H. BERKELY (Bristol) asked the Secretary of LaBounzits' Corraons BILL.—The House then went into coo- Minister at this Court from New Granada, announcing the blockade mittee on this bill. On the clause requiring notice to be given to of certain Granadian ports. parties interested in the case of landowners charging the erection of Lord Joan RUSSELL replied that the question was of considerable cottages on their estates, provision was made for the more effectual importance. The Government of New Granada had notified to him, protection of mortga.gees, and the bill was passed through committee not a blockade, but a closing .of certain ports. The law officers of

with a few slight alterations. the Crown had given their opinion that it was open to the Govern-

ROYAL COURT OF JERSEY.—Mr. Sergeant Proorr, in moving the they choose, but that in the event of those ports being de facto in the second reading of his bill to amend the constitution and practice of hands of insurgents, they would not be competent, as it would be the Royal Court of Jersey, stated that two Royal Commissions had a violation of the international law of blockade. He had therefore, reported that nothing could be worse than the administration of the instructed Admiral Milne to give orders to the commanders of her law by the Royal Court, and that its proceedings were intolerably die- Maiesty's ships not to recognize the closing of the ports in question. tatory and vexatious. The bill would simply amend the constitution EAST INDIA. COUNCIL BILL.—This Bill, as amended, was considered. of the Royal Court, and abolish arrest without affidavit, of the injus- A proposal of Mr. H. SEYMOUR (Poole) to make the appointment tice of which the honourable member mentioned an instance. He of the full members of the Council permissive, instead of compulsory, believed the States would not reform themselves, and that a case had was rejected. been made out for the interference of the Imperial Parliament. Sir CHARLES WOOD proposed the insertion in clause 3 of words Sir G. C. Lewis refused his assent to the second reading of the bill, providing that one member of Council should be a barrister of five on the ground that though Parliament undoubtedly possessed the ab- years' standing. stract right to legislate for the Channel Islands, yet considering that An amendment, proposed by Mr. LAYA.RD (Southwark), with the the report of the Royal Commission had only been brought under the object of making ten years' standing instead of five a requisite for notice of the States of Jersey early this year, he did not think there eligibility having been negatived, the bill, with a few verbal amend- Lad been sufficient delay to justify such an extreme proceeding. Be- meats, was ordered to be read a third time. sides, in the absence of any very strong dissatisfaction on the part of EAST INDIA Crvn, SERVICE Bun.—On the motion for going into the people of Jersey, he did not think it prudent to exert parlia- Committee on this bill, a long and discursive debate ensued, and a mentary power in an island whose inhabitants believed that supreme great variety of objections to the measure were urged by several mem- power resided in the Crown and States, and not in the general legis- bers. Among the most important were those brought forward by Mr. lature of the kingdom, and he therefore, should move that the bill be H. BAILLIE (Inverness-shire), who said that unless a clause was fir read a second time that day three months. serted to confine the uncovenanted service to natives, the Governor- After a short discussion on the right of Parliament to legislate on General would, by the exercise of the power given him under this bill

the subject the bill was withdrawn. of transferring uncovenanted civilians to the covenanted service, be

House of Lords. Government of keeping back from the House the adverse opinions of Sir RICHARD BETHELL, the new Lord Chancellor, was introduced Members of the Council of India, and others, on the measure; by Sir by Lords BROUGHAM and CB.ANWORTH, and took the oaths and his H. WILLogGnin (Evesham), who observed that by the East India Bill seat on the woolsack as Baron Westbury, of Westbury, in the county all covenants entered into by the Company became binding on the of Wilts. Crown, and wished to know how the present bill would affect the two THE TURNER PICTURES.—Lord ST. LEONARDS asked the President Civil Service funds; by Sir H. VA.RNEY (Buckingham), who asserted of the Council whether any steps were in contemplation to carry out that the bill was opposed by all those who were best qualified to judge ; the conditions of the late Mr. Turner's will, under which the nation and by Mr. Maxon (Tower Hamlets), who said that if the House had become possessed of 24 pictures, besides a vast number of water- wished to know the opinion of the Council on the measure, the way colour drawings, and the Royal Academy of 20,0001. The noble lord would be to refer the bill to a Select Committee, and call the members believed that the nation was legally bound by the terms of that will of the Council as witnesses. to _provide a separate room for the pictures, to be called the Turner Sir Cittnus ii-oon, in reply, stated that the bill had the warm sup- gallery. He also objected to their being, exposed to the influence of port of his predecessor in office, Lord Stanley, and he had fortified gas, which bad an injurious effect on paintings ; besides the risk of himself with opinions favourable to its principle from Lords Auckland, their entire destruction by an explosion which it created. He con- Elphinstone, Canning, Hardinge, and Dalhousie. As to the functions

all now in a state of utter rottenness and decay. The cooking an- chided by expressing a hope that Government would propose a vote paratus and the barrack stoves had been managed in exactly the same of credit on the Civil Service Estimates for a Turner Gallery, to be way. He should like to know the total cost of the latter, which had commenced forthwith. been applied for and then condemned and sold for old iron at Alder- Earl Ga.envnian would not enter into the legal points raised by the !lat. The vote for that camp had risen from 100,0001. to 1,300,0001., speech of the noble lord, but would leave them to the proper legal au- and he thought he had stated enough to show that such a system thorities. He believed the pictures were as safe in them present situa- ought to be put an end to. tion at Kensington as they possibly could be and that no danger, but After a long and discursive conversation, daring which Lord Pal- on the contrary immense advantage, resulted from their being exhibited merston " contradicted every opinion Mr. Osborne had uttered, and by gaslight. The recommendations of the noble lord, however, should

Lord OVERSTONE said their lordships were aware of the embarrass- WEDNESDAY. JUNE 26TH. ins situation in which the trustees of the National Gallery found them-

House of Commons. selves in consequence of the ambiguities of Mr. Turner's will. He

Mr. BLANEY (Shrewsbury) thought the rejection of the principle of Earl GRANVILLE said he should be sorry if it should be considered conciliation involved in the bill, would have a bad effect on the intelli- that the appointment was a reflection on the artist, who had shown gent working population of our great towns. great disinterestedness by his refusal of magnificent offers to paint Mr. MACKINNON (Rye) said the House havingassed the bill for private individuals. Mr. Herbert was placed inpossession of the unanimously last Session, it would be stultifying the House to reject room only in 1858,. and since then he had destroyed four hundred feet it this year. He quoted from a report made in favour of the bill last of painting with his own hand because, though others were perfectly year, by a Select Committee, on which were five hon. members who satisfied with the result he himself was not. At the same time, he were large employers of labour, and hoped that after such recom- thought their lordships should not suffer unreasonable inconvenience, mendations for the bill, the House would not reject it on the mere and he should not, therefore, oppose the motion.

virtually rendered the Act of 1824 inoperative. NEW GRANADA.—Mr. H. BERKELY (Bristol) asked the Secretary of

The amendment was carried without a division; so the bill is lost. State whether he had received a notification from Senor Martin,

LaBounzits' Corraons BILL.—The House then went into coo- Minister at this Court from New Granada, announcing the blockade mittee on this bill. On the clause requiring notice to be given to of certain Granadian ports. parties interested in the case of landowners charging the erection of Lord Joan RUSSELL replied that the question was of considerable cottages on their estates, provision was made for the more effectual importance. The Government of New Granada had notified to him, protection of mortga.gees, and the bill was passed through committee not a blockade, but a closing .of certain ports. The law officers of

with a few slight alterations. the Crown had given their opinion that it was open to the Govern- The House having resumed, ment of a country in a state of tranquillity to close anyports

the subject the bill was withdrawn. of transferring uncovenanted civilians to the covenanted service, be

THURSDAY, JUNE 27. enabled to seriously injure the prospects of those who had obtained

places by competition; by Mr. Asms,(Ashburton), who accused the

of the Council, he thought that question had been thoroughly settled, when the amalgamation of the two armies was discussed. As to the civil servants, they would be entitled to compensation for the deterio- ration in value of the funds, caused by the influx of a large number from the uneovenanted service.

Mr. Venn-rem (Windsor) said there was but one opinion among members of the Civil Service now in London as to the measure, viz. that it would sap and destroy the noble service to which they be- longed.

The House then went into Committee on the bill. On clause 1, Mr. Verisirrenx strongly deprecated the employment of barristers to the exclusion of both civil servants and natives. He moved the insertion of words providing that the bill should not have a retrospective effect. The amendment was negatived, and the clause agreed to.

On the remaining clauses, a long debate took place, and a host of amendments were proposed and rejected. All the clauses were finally agreed to, and the House resumed.

Comas OF JUSTICE BELL.—On the motion for the third reading of this bill, Mr. LYGON (Tewkesbury) asked whether the site had been finally determined upon, while there were two schemes upon which evidence had not yet been heard.

Lord PrimmisTox said there were insurmountable objections to both the other schemes. He doubted whether Lincoln's Inn-fields would be large enough, besides other difficulties. He hoped the House would not refuse to pass the bill. The bill was read a third time, and the House adjourned.

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