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Our Weekly Budget.

OUR WEEKLY BUDGET .

npHOUGH there is gi'eat anxiety in Parliament , there is JL little to record of moment in connection with the one absorbing topic of the day . In the House of Lords on Thursday last , the Earl of Derby was questioned as to the passage of the Dardanelles by onr Fleet , and made answer

in accordance with what he knew . The Lord Chancellor afterwards moved the first reading of a Bill on Territorial Waters . On Friday , Lord Strathcden and Campbell

gave notice of his intention to move a certain resolution on Monday ; but when that day arrived , the Earl of Derby pressed his lordship not to bring it forward , stating that in the event of his persisting , it would be tho duty of the

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Government to support the previous question . Earl Granville spoke in a somewhat similar strain , and so the resolution was not moved . The same evening , ot ! rr questions bearing on the Eastern Crisis were asked ancl answered

or not answered , according to the exigencies of the service . On Tuesday , the Foreign Secretary felt it his dut y to decline giving any information iu reply to a question by the Duke of Argyll .

In the House of Commons , very similar questious have been put by different members . On Thursday , after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had replied to sundry of these , Mr . E . Jenkins delivered himself of a speech on the second reading of the Consolidated Fund ( £ 6 , 000 , 000 ) Bill . He would

have done better to have held his tongue . When this and the Exchequer Bonds , & c , Bill had received a second reading , Mr . Sclator Booth rose ancl moved the second reading of the County Government Bill , the debate , on the motion of Lord E . Fitzmaurico , being adjourned to Monday

During the rest of the sitting , the House was in committee on the Irish Closing Bill . On Friday , after the usual array of questions had been disposed of , Mr . O . Morgan rose and moved his resolutions on the Burial Question . This occupied the greater part of the evening , and on a division , Mr .

Morgan was defeated by 242 to 227 , the result causing the Opposition to cheer loudly . On Monday , the adjourned debate on the County Government Bill was resumed , and in the result the Government carried the second reading by 231 to 03 . On Tuesday , a resolution was moved by Mr .

Meldon on the subject of the Borough Franchise , and though opposed by the Government , it was only by the narrow majority of eight that he was beaten , the numbers being—¦ for Mr . Meldon ' s resolution , 126 ; against it , 134 . The same evening , the second reading of Sir John Lubbock ' s

Ancient Monuments Bill was carried by 04 to 56—majority eight . On Wednesday , the second reading of the Waste Lands ( Ireland ) Bill was moved by Mr . MacCarthy , but was opposed by the Government , Mr . James Lowther appearing for the first time as Irish Secretary , and on a division , was lost by 147 to 118 .

The Queen with the Princess Beatrice , and attended by the members of the Court , left Osborne for Windsor , on Friday . She reached the Castle at a quarter past two p . m ., and shortly afterwards the Earl of Beaconsfield arrived and had an audience of Her Majesty . Yesterday was fixed for

Her Majesty to hold a Council , and on Thursday next she will hold a Court at Buckingham Palace . A levee is also announced to be held on the J 1 th March , by the Prince of Wales on behalf of Her Majesty . His Royal Highness and his brother the Duke of Connaught left London last week

for Berlin , in order to be present at the marriage of their niece , Princess Charlotte of Prussia , with the hereditary Prince of Meiningen , and of the Princess Elizabeth , daughter of Prince Frederick Charles , the Red Prince of tho Franco-German war , with the hereditary Prince of Oldenberg .

Their Royal Highnesses reached Berlin on Friday last , and the marriages were solemnised on Monday , in the Chapel of tho Royal Castle , in the presence of the Emperor and Empress of Germany , all the Prussian Princes and Princesses , the King and Queen of the Bel giansthe

, English Princes , and a number of German Princes . After the ceremony , the newly-married couples received the congratulations of their parents and the assembled Princes . Supper was then served , ancl after supper came the torch dance in the White Hall , and in which the brides and

bridegrooms walked through the Hall some twenty times . The event was marked in England by a Royal Salute of Osborne House , by H . M . Ironclad " Hector , " on the day of tho

marriages . Among the presents , which the Queen gave her grand-daughters , were a pair of pearl ancl diamond earrings , a dress trimmed with Honiton lace , ancl a quantity of stuffs of Irish and Scotch manufacture .

There was a brilliant gathering on Tuesday , at the meeting held that day at Hopping Hill , Lamport , near Southampton , under the auspices of the Pytchley Hunt , among those present being the Empress of Austria , the Princess of Wales , the Crown Prince aud suite , the Duke of Teckand

, Princess Mary , Duchess of Teck , the Duke of Grafton , the Earl and Countess Granville , the Earl and Countess Spencer , the Countess of Westmoreland , Lord Snfik-hl , & c , & c . The Empress of Austria presented two cnn ,. One , value £ 120

tor hunters not tenant-farmers , was won by Captain Middleton ' s Piccadilly , the other , value of £ 80 ( with £ 100 added ) , for tenant-farmer hunters , was won by Mr . Watson of Bedford . The Kelmarsh Challenge Cup , value £ 150 , was won by Captain Manning ' s Twili ght , the Pytchley