Summary Of News For August.

Lords , the Earl of Shaftesbury presented an important petition from Reading , praying that the condition of Poland should be a subject of consideration in all Hiture negotiations for peace ; and Lord Brougham enquired into the causes which delayed the progress of the Summary Jurisdiction Bill , and other measures of Law Reform . On the 31 st , Lord Brougham complained of the withdrawal of the government grant to the Royal Society , a body which had made the most important addition to literature and science ; ancl the Metropolitan Local Management Bill passed through Committee . On the 2 nd of August , the street Public Offices Extension Bill

Downing- , having for its object the collocation of the public offices , was read a second time . The Earl of Harrington complained of the power vested in the Government , of fixing the salaries of the County Court Judges . The Turkish Loan Bill , and the Sale of Beer Bill were severally introduced , and read a first time . On the 3 rd , Lord Panmure in reply to the Earl of Ellenborongb , admitted that there hacl been mutinous disturbances among the troops under the command of General Beatson , but denied the truth of his reported assassination by them . He also statedin l

, repy to the same nobleman , that the foreign troops at present , at Heligoland numbered 10 , 000 infantry , and 2000 cavalry . The Turkish Loan Bill , after a strong opposition from Lord Ellenhorough , who preferred a direct subsidy to a guarantee , and from Lord Hardwicke , who complained of want of activity in the Black Sea , and Sea of Azoff , was read a second time . On the 6 th , on the motion of the Marquis of Clanricarde , ancl by a majority of 25 to 16 , the standing order , prohibiting the consideration of any new business in their lordships' House after a certain date

, was suspended in favour of the Sale of Beer Bill . The Metropolitan Local Management Bill was read a third time ancl passed , and the Turkish Loan Bill went through Committee . On the 7 th , the Limited Liability Bill was read a second time , its opponents having attempted to defeat it , not on its merits , but maintaining the standing order already referred to , as a bar to its consideration . The division was for the suspension of the order 14 , against it 38 . The Sale of Beer Bill went through Committee , and the Turkish Loan Bill was read a third time . On the 9 th , the motion of Lord Campbell for referring the Limited Liability Bill to a Select Committeewas

, defeated by a majority of 28 to 11 , after which the bill was taken into consideration by a committee of the whole house , and ordered to be reported . On the 10 th , the Lord Chancellor stated that it was the intention of Government next session to reintroduce the Leases ancl Sales of Settled Estates Bill , withdrawn from the House of Commons by the Solicitor General , as he found it impossible to carry it with clause which he had introduced , prohibiting the enclosure of Hampstead Heath . Lord St . Leonards thinking it hard that the owner of that property should be prevented from

using it as he wished—His father's will prevents his building on it-suggested that Government should purchase it for the enjoyment of the people . Lord Malmesbury called attention to the severities suffered by the English prisoners of war , in the Russian Military Prisons . The Exchequer Bills ( £ 7000 , 000 ) Bill , was passed through Committee . On the llth , the Limited Liability Bill was read a third time and passed , and the amendments introduced into the Charitable Trusts Bill agreed to

, were . On the 13 th , Lord St . Leonards , and the other Law Lords vindicated the character of the House of Lords , as a Court of Appeal from the aspersions cast upon it by the Solicitor General in the House of Commons , and Lord Monteagle presented a petition from Sir Culling Eardley , complaining that the regulations of the University of Oxford , with regard to the granting of degrees , ignored the intention of the legislature in passing the Oxford Universit y Reform Bill of last session . Sir Culling had been a student of Orielancl had leted his

, comp undergraduate course , but was refused his degree , because he declined to subscribe to the 39 articles . This refusal took place many years past . On the _ passing of the bill referred to , by the provisions of which subscription to the articles is no longer sine qua non to a degree , Sir Culling applied for his , but was again refused unless he declared himself extra ecclesiam , or out of the pale of the Church of Englandwhicli he declined to doas he did not consider the fact of his

, , disagreeing with some of the articles , placed him in the category of Non-conformists . The Lord Chancellor , the Earl of Harrowby , and Lord Campbell coincided in thinking the conduct of the University at variance with the spirit of the act and ultra vires . On the 14 th , a Royal Commission gave the assent of the Crown to a large number of Bills ,