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The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COUET . —The Queen has returned from Scotland . Accompanied by thc younger members of her family , ivho AA-ere all ivifch her at Balmoral , she left her Highland residence on Monday , and arrived at AVindsor at nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning . It is gratifying to be able to add that her Majesty and the Ro } 'al children were in perfect health , and appeared to be invigorated by their Scotch sojourn . The Times states that the marriage of the Princess Alice will take lace at Osborne on the 1 st July .

p I . AIPEEIAL PAELIAJIENT . —Thursday , the 29 th ult ., being Ascension Day , tbe House of Lords did not meet . On Friday , Lord Granville moved the third reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill , defended at some length the policy of the Chancellor of the . Exchequer . Ho was followed by Lord Caii . irvor .. The debate was continued by the Duke of Newcastle , the Duke of Argyll , Lortjs Derby , Overstone , Grey , and Russell . The bill ivas then read a third time and passed . On Monday , some discussion took place on the

motion for the committal of the Mersey , AA * cavor , and Irwell Protection Bill . Lord Stanley of Aldorloy , and the Lord Chancellor ob - jectod to the power granted under the bill , and Lord Camperilown moved that it be committed that day six months . Lords Derby , Grey , and Redesdale supported the bill , and Lord Camperdown having withdrawn his amendment , the consideration of the measure ivas postponed for a fortnight . In reply to a question from Lord Ravensworththe Duke of Somerset stated that the Government did not at

, present intend to take any steps for carrying into effect the recommendations of the Select Committee on floating breakwaters . On Tuesday , Lord Brougham , referring to tbe case of the Nightingale , urged the importance of bringing in a bill to prevent the fitting out of slavers at Liverpool . The Marquis of Clanricarde called attention to the recent assassinations in Ireland , and expressed his belief that these crimes ivere the acts of isolated individuals and not the result of an organised Ribbon conspiracy- Lord Lifford differed from the

noble Marquis and asserted that lie had proof's of the existence of a secret organisation extending over the whole of Ireland . After some further conversation the subject dropped . The royal assent was given by commission to the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill , and thirty-eight other measures . In the In the HOUSE OP COMMONS , on Thursday , the 29 th ult ., Lord Palmerston explained the present position of the Affghan "difficulty , " and stated that there was no reason to believe that Persia ivas at all mixed up in the matter . He added , however , that " if the Shah of Persia invaded Herat , it Avould be for the British Government to consider AA-hat steps must betaken . " The noble lord acceded to a request made by Mr . Lindsay , that a return of the iron-cased ships built or

building for the British navy , together with any information possessed by the government as to what France had done or was doing in the same direction , should be laid before the House . Mr . Lindsay then gave notice that , on the 27 th of next month , he should call attention to the state of our relations with the Federal and Confederate States of North America . On Friday , Sir de Lacy Evans moved a resolution to the effect that the command of regiments should no longer be purchasable , and that thc promotions to that rank should be regulated by selectionupon the responsibility of the

Commander-in-, Chief . Sir G . C , Lewis opposed the motion . —A long discussion followed , and on a division the resolution , ivas rejected by a large majority . On Monday , the four bills dealing with the question of the transfer of land , which hai'e passed through the house of Lords , were , after some discussion , read a second time , A arious notices of motion having been given pledging the House of Commons to economy and a reduction of natural expenditure including ono by Mr . AValpole agreed to on Monday , at a meeting of the Earl of Derby ' s

supporters when they cainc on for discussion on Tuesday . Lord Palmerston announced that ho regarded Mr . AValpole ' s amendment on tlie subject of the national expenditure as a party move , intended to decide the question " whether- the gentlemen on the Ministerial or those on the opposite side of the House were best entitled to the confidence of the country . " That being the case he appealed to Mr . Horsman , Lord Robert Montagu , and Darin- Griffith , AVIIO had given notice of amendments , to wave their privilege of precedence , and

permit the House at once to proccccd ivith Mr . Stansf ' eld ' s resolution , his ( Lord Pahnerston ' s ) amendment to that resolution , and Mr . AValpole ' s amendment to his proposition . Lord Robert Montagu expressed his regret that such an issue should be placed before the House . Mr . Horsman disclaimed , on his own part , any spirit of hospitality to the Government , and submitted that Lord Palmerston had placed the House in an unfair position . Mr . AValpole declared that if his amendment" had been intended as a vote of want of

confidence in the Government , he should certainly not have been the man to move it . " Mr . Bright repudiated tho party issue ivhich had been introduced ; and submitted that it ivas the duty ofthe House to take that resolution ivhich most clearly expressed their feelings upon the question of the national expenditure . The members to whom Lord Palmerston addressed his appeal having agreed to AvaiVe their right of precedence , Mr . Stansfeld moved : — "That , in the opinion of this House , the national expenditure is capable of reduction Avithout compromising the safety , tbe independence , or the legitimate -influence of the country . " Lord Palmerston then brought forward his amendment , and repeated his former assertion that if the amendment of Mr . AValpole ivere carried , he could only regard it as a vote

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of want of confidence . He defended the course which the Government had hitherto pursued , and expressed his perfect readiness to propose retrenchment whenever the aspect of affairs ivould warrant such a course . Mr . Disraeli and other members followed ; and , on a division , Mr . Stansfeld ' s motion was rejected by an overwhelming majority , —the numbers being 65 for , arid 367 against , the resolution . Mr . AA alpolc ' s amendment ivas subsequently withdrawn . Wednesday being Derby Day the House did not meet .

GENEEAL HOME NEWS . —The Board of Trade returns for April , which have j ] ust been published , bear testimony to the industrial paralysis _ Avhich has befallen the country , and the privation and distress which must in consequence be the lot of the Avorking classes . In two years the declared value of our exports has fallen off in that one month to the extent of 3 J- millions ; and in the first four months of the year the decrease has been 5 ^ millions . Csptain Gallon , of the Royal Engineers , has been appointed Assistant Under Secretary forAVar . The Under Secretaryshi vacant by the death of Sir

p Benjamin Hawes , ivill not be filled up , and thus—on the supposition that Captain Galton will receive the same salary as tho late Mr . Godlcy—a saving of £ 2 , 000 a year will be effected . The Gazette announces the retirement of Colonel Bentinck , of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , on half-pay , and the appointment of Colonel Shate , late of the 6 th Dragoons , as his successor . The Government , while declining to afford the Atlantic Telegraph Company any pecuniary assistancehave granted the use of ships for the of making a

, purpose more complete survey of the line between Ireland and Newfoundland . Soundings , it is stated , will be taken every mile , instead of ' at the wide intervals deemed sufficient Avhen the project was originally started . Government ships ivill also be detailed to assist in the submersion of the cable . The managers of St . Thomas ' s Hospital have altogether failed in making terms ivith the directors of the South Boston Rail-Avay . Notwithstanding the warnings they have had , notwithstanding that it was at their oivn instance the railway shareholders AA-ere

compelled to purchase the whole hospital when they only wanted a slice of its grounds , it seems that they have not yet been able to determine on the site where the new hospital shall be erected , and now the time is at band when they must remove their patients . Various offers and counter offers have been made by the two bodies as to the terms on ivhich the present patients might be allowed to remain , but no agreement has been come to , and it is now settled that the existing patients are to hai-e room made for them in the alread

y crowded hospitals of the metropolis for the next three of four years ; therefore , ive fear , one of the greatest blessings to poor sufferers on the south of the Thames ivill be practically blotted out of the charities of London . The state of the Haymarket and its neighbourhood has long been the scandal of London . A deputation , headed hy Lord Calthorpe , has waited on the Home Secretary , to call his attention to the subject with a view to some measures being devised to abate the nuisance .

Sir George Grey reminded them that any steps they could take ivould only touch the outside of the evil , and repudiated the idea of introducing into this country the continental licensiag system , but intimated that the whole system of regulating public-houses , refreshment rooms , & c . ( where the prostitutes must congregate ) , must come under the revision of Parliament in the course of next session . A deputation from several of tho metropolitan parishes waited , on Saturday , on Mr . Villiers , President of the Poor-law Board , to state objections to certain clauses in the parochial assessments law .

At present each parish not only makes its own assessments , but makes it at its own valuation , so that while one parish assesses on three-fourths of tbe value of the property the neighbouring parish assesses on two-thirds only . This is of no consequence so long as each parish assesses for its own poor ; but it is different when two or three unite to support the poor that are charged to the union . The burden then falls more heavily than it ought to do upon the more highly-assessed it may bebut not necessarilthe richerparish .

, y , It is to remedy this evil that the bill was brought in , to ivhich the deputation objected , chiefly on the ground that it may interfere AA'ith parochial independence . Mr . Villiers informed them that the bill was now under consideration of a select committee , where doubtless many of the objections then made Avould be removed . The coroner ' s inquest on the body of a man named DriscoII , who was thrown from a girder on the Metropolitan Railway , a distance of fifty feetto the groundin a struggle Avith a fellow workmanhas

, , , been held , when it ivas clearly shoivn that a quarrel which the deceased had ivith another labourer named Gregory , ended in the latter throwing him from his position on the girder , which caused his death . A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Gregory . ¦ -The intelligence from Ireland still tolls of outrage and violence . Tire latest information is that Mr . Brown , the agent on the Ponsonby estates in the neighbourhood of Youghal , has received a threatening letter on account of some judgement decrees obtained

against tenants on the estate . Au investigation is going on . A special commission will bo opened at Limerick on the ICth June . ' An irruption of water occurred at the Bradley Colliery , Bilston—the property of Messrs . Thorneycroft and Co ., on Friday , when four men and three boys perished . An extraordinary affair is reported from Sheffield . The sexton of the Wardsend Cemetry has been charged with the exhumation and mutilation of bodies . An examination of the cemetry resulted in the discovery of some remains in a

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The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COUET . —The Queen has returned from Scotland . Accompanied by thc younger members of her family , ivho AA-ere all ivifch her at Balmoral , she left her Highland residence on Monday , and arrived at AVindsor at nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning . It is gratifying to be able to add that her Majesty and the Ro } 'al children were in perfect health , and appeared to be invigorated by their Scotch sojourn . The Times states that the marriage of the Princess Alice will take lace at Osborne on the 1 st July .

p I . AIPEEIAL PAELIAJIENT . —Thursday , the 29 th ult ., being Ascension Day , tbe House of Lords did not meet . On Friday , Lord Granville moved the third reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill , defended at some length the policy of the Chancellor of the . Exchequer . Ho was followed by Lord Caii . irvor .. The debate was continued by the Duke of Newcastle , the Duke of Argyll , Lortjs Derby , Overstone , Grey , and Russell . The bill ivas then read a third time and passed . On Monday , some discussion took place on the

motion for the committal of the Mersey , AA * cavor , and Irwell Protection Bill . Lord Stanley of Aldorloy , and the Lord Chancellor ob - jectod to the power granted under the bill , and Lord Camperilown moved that it be committed that day six months . Lords Derby , Grey , and Redesdale supported the bill , and Lord Camperdown having withdrawn his amendment , the consideration of the measure ivas postponed for a fortnight . In reply to a question from Lord Ravensworththe Duke of Somerset stated that the Government did not at

, present intend to take any steps for carrying into effect the recommendations of the Select Committee on floating breakwaters . On Tuesday , Lord Brougham , referring to tbe case of the Nightingale , urged the importance of bringing in a bill to prevent the fitting out of slavers at Liverpool . The Marquis of Clanricarde called attention to the recent assassinations in Ireland , and expressed his belief that these crimes ivere the acts of isolated individuals and not the result of an organised Ribbon conspiracy- Lord Lifford differed from the

noble Marquis and asserted that lie had proof's of the existence of a secret organisation extending over the whole of Ireland . After some further conversation the subject dropped . The royal assent was given by commission to the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill , and thirty-eight other measures . In the In the HOUSE OP COMMONS , on Thursday , the 29 th ult ., Lord Palmerston explained the present position of the Affghan "difficulty , " and stated that there was no reason to believe that Persia ivas at all mixed up in the matter . He added , however , that " if the Shah of Persia invaded Herat , it Avould be for the British Government to consider AA-hat steps must betaken . " The noble lord acceded to a request made by Mr . Lindsay , that a return of the iron-cased ships built or

building for the British navy , together with any information possessed by the government as to what France had done or was doing in the same direction , should be laid before the House . Mr . Lindsay then gave notice that , on the 27 th of next month , he should call attention to the state of our relations with the Federal and Confederate States of North America . On Friday , Sir de Lacy Evans moved a resolution to the effect that the command of regiments should no longer be purchasable , and that thc promotions to that rank should be regulated by selectionupon the responsibility of the

Commander-in-, Chief . Sir G . C , Lewis opposed the motion . —A long discussion followed , and on a division the resolution , ivas rejected by a large majority . On Monday , the four bills dealing with the question of the transfer of land , which hai'e passed through the house of Lords , were , after some discussion , read a second time , A arious notices of motion having been given pledging the House of Commons to economy and a reduction of natural expenditure including ono by Mr . AValpole agreed to on Monday , at a meeting of the Earl of Derby ' s

supporters when they cainc on for discussion on Tuesday . Lord Palmerston announced that ho regarded Mr . AValpole ' s amendment on tlie subject of the national expenditure as a party move , intended to decide the question " whether- the gentlemen on the Ministerial or those on the opposite side of the House were best entitled to the confidence of the country . " That being the case he appealed to Mr . Horsman , Lord Robert Montagu , and Darin- Griffith , AVIIO had given notice of amendments , to wave their privilege of precedence , and

permit the House at once to proccccd ivith Mr . Stansf ' eld ' s resolution , his ( Lord Pahnerston ' s ) amendment to that resolution , and Mr . AValpole ' s amendment to his proposition . Lord Robert Montagu expressed his regret that such an issue should be placed before the House . Mr . Horsman disclaimed , on his own part , any spirit of hospitality to the Government , and submitted that Lord Palmerston had placed the House in an unfair position . Mr . AValpole declared that if his amendment" had been intended as a vote of want of

confidence in the Government , he should certainly not have been the man to move it . " Mr . Bright repudiated tho party issue ivhich had been introduced ; and submitted that it ivas the duty ofthe House to take that resolution ivhich most clearly expressed their feelings upon the question of the national expenditure . The members to whom Lord Palmerston addressed his appeal having agreed to AvaiVe their right of precedence , Mr . Stansfeld moved : — "That , in the opinion of this House , the national expenditure is capable of reduction Avithout compromising the safety , tbe independence , or the legitimate -influence of the country . " Lord Palmerston then brought forward his amendment , and repeated his former assertion that if the amendment of Mr . AValpole ivere carried , he could only regard it as a vote

The Week.

of want of confidence . He defended the course which the Government had hitherto pursued , and expressed his perfect readiness to propose retrenchment whenever the aspect of affairs ivould warrant such a course . Mr . Disraeli and other members followed ; and , on a division , Mr . Stansfeld ' s motion was rejected by an overwhelming majority , —the numbers being 65 for , arid 367 against , the resolution . Mr . AA alpolc ' s amendment ivas subsequently withdrawn . Wednesday being Derby Day the House did not meet .

GENEEAL HOME NEWS . —The Board of Trade returns for April , which have j ] ust been published , bear testimony to the industrial paralysis _ Avhich has befallen the country , and the privation and distress which must in consequence be the lot of the Avorking classes . In two years the declared value of our exports has fallen off in that one month to the extent of 3 J- millions ; and in the first four months of the year the decrease has been 5 ^ millions . Csptain Gallon , of the Royal Engineers , has been appointed Assistant Under Secretary forAVar . The Under Secretaryshi vacant by the death of Sir

p Benjamin Hawes , ivill not be filled up , and thus—on the supposition that Captain Galton will receive the same salary as tho late Mr . Godlcy—a saving of £ 2 , 000 a year will be effected . The Gazette announces the retirement of Colonel Bentinck , of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , on half-pay , and the appointment of Colonel Shate , late of the 6 th Dragoons , as his successor . The Government , while declining to afford the Atlantic Telegraph Company any pecuniary assistancehave granted the use of ships for the of making a

, purpose more complete survey of the line between Ireland and Newfoundland . Soundings , it is stated , will be taken every mile , instead of ' at the wide intervals deemed sufficient Avhen the project was originally started . Government ships ivill also be detailed to assist in the submersion of the cable . The managers of St . Thomas ' s Hospital have altogether failed in making terms ivith the directors of the South Boston Rail-Avay . Notwithstanding the warnings they have had , notwithstanding that it was at their oivn instance the railway shareholders AA-ere

compelled to purchase the whole hospital when they only wanted a slice of its grounds , it seems that they have not yet been able to determine on the site where the new hospital shall be erected , and now the time is at band when they must remove their patients . Various offers and counter offers have been made by the two bodies as to the terms on ivhich the present patients might be allowed to remain , but no agreement has been come to , and it is now settled that the existing patients are to hai-e room made for them in the alread

y crowded hospitals of the metropolis for the next three of four years ; therefore , ive fear , one of the greatest blessings to poor sufferers on the south of the Thames ivill be practically blotted out of the charities of London . The state of the Haymarket and its neighbourhood has long been the scandal of London . A deputation , headed hy Lord Calthorpe , has waited on the Home Secretary , to call his attention to the subject with a view to some measures being devised to abate the nuisance .

Sir George Grey reminded them that any steps they could take ivould only touch the outside of the evil , and repudiated the idea of introducing into this country the continental licensiag system , but intimated that the whole system of regulating public-houses , refreshment rooms , & c . ( where the prostitutes must congregate ) , must come under the revision of Parliament in the course of next session . A deputation from several of tho metropolitan parishes waited , on Saturday , on Mr . Villiers , President of the Poor-law Board , to state objections to certain clauses in the parochial assessments law .

At present each parish not only makes its own assessments , but makes it at its own valuation , so that while one parish assesses on three-fourths of tbe value of the property the neighbouring parish assesses on two-thirds only . This is of no consequence so long as each parish assesses for its own poor ; but it is different when two or three unite to support the poor that are charged to the union . The burden then falls more heavily than it ought to do upon the more highly-assessed it may bebut not necessarilthe richerparish .

, y , It is to remedy this evil that the bill was brought in , to ivhich the deputation objected , chiefly on the ground that it may interfere AA'ith parochial independence . Mr . Villiers informed them that the bill was now under consideration of a select committee , where doubtless many of the objections then made Avould be removed . The coroner ' s inquest on the body of a man named DriscoII , who was thrown from a girder on the Metropolitan Railway , a distance of fifty feetto the groundin a struggle Avith a fellow workmanhas

, , , been held , when it ivas clearly shoivn that a quarrel which the deceased had ivith another labourer named Gregory , ended in the latter throwing him from his position on the girder , which caused his death . A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Gregory . ¦ -The intelligence from Ireland still tolls of outrage and violence . Tire latest information is that Mr . Brown , the agent on the Ponsonby estates in the neighbourhood of Youghal , has received a threatening letter on account of some judgement decrees obtained

against tenants on the estate . Au investigation is going on . A special commission will bo opened at Limerick on the ICth June . ' An irruption of water occurred at the Bradley Colliery , Bilston—the property of Messrs . Thorneycroft and Co ., on Friday , when four men and three boys perished . An extraordinary affair is reported from Sheffield . The sexton of the Wardsend Cemetry has been charged with the exhumation and mutilation of bodies . An examination of the cemetry resulted in the discovery of some remains in a

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