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The Week
noon at the time of the arrival of the royal party . In the evening the Queen , with the Queen of Portugal , attended the performances at her Majesty ' s Theatre .- — - « --In the House of Lords , on Monday attention having been called to the report of the Commissi oners on the Education in the Endowed Schools of Ireland , the Earl of Derby admitted there were faults in and objections to the present system of national education in Ireland , but he felt great reluctance to accept the remedies suggested , and which only three out of the five commissioners had agreed to . On
Tuesday the Ecclesiastical Commission Billwas read a second time , and referred to a select committee . On Thursday Lord Ebury moved an address to the crown , praying that a royal commission might be appointed to consider whether the liturgy of the Church of England was not susceptible of improvement . On Friday the Earl of Ellenborough begged to lay on the table of the House the papers which had been promised by him yesterday with reference to the proclamation of the governor-general of India . There were one or two paragraphs in one of the letters to which he alluded which he did not think it expedient to publish ; but as
regarded the main substance of that letter it was given in extenso , and would be perfectly understood by their lordships . He should therefore move that those papers be printed . [ By some extraordinary oversight the papers have been printed with the passages which were to be omitted , and which clearly show that the government are of opinion that the people of Oude are not guilty of the crime of rebellion like the mutineers of the regiments under British control . ] In the House of Commons on Monday the Exchequer Bonds ( £ 2 , 000 , 000 ) Bill was read a second time ; and the second resolution for transferring the government of India to the
Imperial gOTernment passed . On Tuesday Mr . Gladstone moved a resolution for an address to her Majesty denning the course to be taken at the approaching conferences relative to the future government of Wallachia and Moldavia . The motion was negatived by 292 to 114 . In reply to a question , Mr . S . Fitzgerald said that a despatch had been received from the Minister of Sardinia that day , stating that the government of that country Was prepared to act in accordance with the spirit of the protocol of April the 14 th , and in entire harmony with the government of this country , as regarded the affair of the Cagliari .
On Wednesday Lord Bury ' s bill authorizing marriages with a deceased wife s sister was read a second time—there being for the bill 174 , against it 134 . On Thursday Mr . Locke King ' s bill abolishing the property qualification for members of Parliament was read a second time . On Friday , after some discussion relative to the appointment of gentlemen as justices of the peace for Canterbury , who had been pointed out in a report of the House as having taken part in the corrupt practices at the election for 1852 ( when it was stated that as soon as this was discovered the gentlemen were called upon to resign ) , the House went into
committee on the affairs of India . ——There is no news of importance from India since our last . Her Majesty has been pleased to signify to Sir Colin Campbell her intention of raising him to the dignity of a British peerage , in consequence of his distinguished services . According to the accounts received from Mentz , the treaty relative to the construction of a fixed bridge over the . Rhine was signed on the 7 th by the commissioners of all the governments interested in the question . The Koyal Mail steamship Af rica , Capt . Shannon , arrived in the Mersey at midnight on Sunday , with advices from New York to the 28 th . She brought 150
passengers and 4 , 000 dollars in specie . Lord Malmesbury , has , it is stated , demanded £ 4 , 000 as compensation for our engineers , ho cruelly and wickedly treated at Naples . We trust that he will be enabled to enforce the claim . The British Bank directors not satisfied with their sentence , have been applying for a new trial . The application was heard patiently enough , but Lord Campbell dismissed it . ——Jules Gerard , the lion-killer , has just left Marseilles for Bonar
with several sportsmen , among whom is the Russian Count Branicki . The Bank of London and National Insurance Association held a meeting this week , Sir Henry Muggeridge in the chair . The report showed that in the life department 824 selected lives had been insured for £ 312 , 200 , producing £ 10 , 507 . 9 s . 6 d . of new premiums . The total life premiums were £ 52 , 959 . 5 s , Cd ., and the death claims . £ 17 , 153 . 17 s . 8 d . The balance , after deducting expenses carried to the life assurance fund , was £ 1 D , G 87 » 3 s . 5 d , The income of the life department was esti-
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The Week
noon at the time of the arrival of the royal party . In the evening the Queen , with the Queen of Portugal , attended the performances at her Majesty ' s Theatre .- — - « --In the House of Lords , on Monday attention having been called to the report of the Commissi oners on the Education in the Endowed Schools of Ireland , the Earl of Derby admitted there were faults in and objections to the present system of national education in Ireland , but he felt great reluctance to accept the remedies suggested , and which only three out of the five commissioners had agreed to . On
Tuesday the Ecclesiastical Commission Billwas read a second time , and referred to a select committee . On Thursday Lord Ebury moved an address to the crown , praying that a royal commission might be appointed to consider whether the liturgy of the Church of England was not susceptible of improvement . On Friday the Earl of Ellenborough begged to lay on the table of the House the papers which had been promised by him yesterday with reference to the proclamation of the governor-general of India . There were one or two paragraphs in one of the letters to which he alluded which he did not think it expedient to publish ; but as
regarded the main substance of that letter it was given in extenso , and would be perfectly understood by their lordships . He should therefore move that those papers be printed . [ By some extraordinary oversight the papers have been printed with the passages which were to be omitted , and which clearly show that the government are of opinion that the people of Oude are not guilty of the crime of rebellion like the mutineers of the regiments under British control . ] In the House of Commons on Monday the Exchequer Bonds ( £ 2 , 000 , 000 ) Bill was read a second time ; and the second resolution for transferring the government of India to the
Imperial gOTernment passed . On Tuesday Mr . Gladstone moved a resolution for an address to her Majesty denning the course to be taken at the approaching conferences relative to the future government of Wallachia and Moldavia . The motion was negatived by 292 to 114 . In reply to a question , Mr . S . Fitzgerald said that a despatch had been received from the Minister of Sardinia that day , stating that the government of that country Was prepared to act in accordance with the spirit of the protocol of April the 14 th , and in entire harmony with the government of this country , as regarded the affair of the Cagliari .
On Wednesday Lord Bury ' s bill authorizing marriages with a deceased wife s sister was read a second time—there being for the bill 174 , against it 134 . On Thursday Mr . Locke King ' s bill abolishing the property qualification for members of Parliament was read a second time . On Friday , after some discussion relative to the appointment of gentlemen as justices of the peace for Canterbury , who had been pointed out in a report of the House as having taken part in the corrupt practices at the election for 1852 ( when it was stated that as soon as this was discovered the gentlemen were called upon to resign ) , the House went into
committee on the affairs of India . ——There is no news of importance from India since our last . Her Majesty has been pleased to signify to Sir Colin Campbell her intention of raising him to the dignity of a British peerage , in consequence of his distinguished services . According to the accounts received from Mentz , the treaty relative to the construction of a fixed bridge over the . Rhine was signed on the 7 th by the commissioners of all the governments interested in the question . The Koyal Mail steamship Af rica , Capt . Shannon , arrived in the Mersey at midnight on Sunday , with advices from New York to the 28 th . She brought 150
passengers and 4 , 000 dollars in specie . Lord Malmesbury , has , it is stated , demanded £ 4 , 000 as compensation for our engineers , ho cruelly and wickedly treated at Naples . We trust that he will be enabled to enforce the claim . The British Bank directors not satisfied with their sentence , have been applying for a new trial . The application was heard patiently enough , but Lord Campbell dismissed it . ——Jules Gerard , the lion-killer , has just left Marseilles for Bonar
with several sportsmen , among whom is the Russian Count Branicki . The Bank of London and National Insurance Association held a meeting this week , Sir Henry Muggeridge in the chair . The report showed that in the life department 824 selected lives had been insured for £ 312 , 200 , producing £ 10 , 507 . 9 s . 6 d . of new premiums . The total life premiums were £ 52 , 959 . 5 s , Cd ., and the death claims . £ 17 , 153 . 17 s . 8 d . The balance , after deducting expenses carried to the life assurance fund , was £ 1 D , G 87 » 3 s . 5 d , The income of the life department was esti-