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The Week.
I MPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —On Friday the 2 nd inst ., the Archbishop of Canterbury's Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Bill , and the Reg istration of Voters Bill , ^ were read a second timetbe former being at the same time ordered to be referred to a Select Committee . On Monday three of the titles to land bills were read a third time , and passed ; and the Exchequer Bonds Bill passed through Committe . On Tuesday the
Transfer of Stocks ( Ireland ) Bill ivas read a second time ; and the Exchequer Bonds Bill a third time . In the House of Commons on the 1 st inst ., the Markets and Fairs ( Ireland ) bill passed through committee ; the births and deaths reg istration ( Ireland ) bill ivas read a second time ; and the survey registration ( Ireland ) Ibill passed through Committee . Friday the 2 nd Sir G . C Leivis announced that ho intended
shortly to ask for leave to bring in a bill for another loan in connection with the ntaional defences . The right lion . Baronet further stated , in reply to a question from Lord Elcho , that the Eoyal Commission on the volunteer movement had been nominated . Mr . Layard , in reply ^ to Mr . AV . E . Forster , stated that a commercial treaty between this country and Italy was about to be negotiated , and that the government of Turin had
already despatched a commissioner to London . One or two other questions having been disposed of , Mr . Maguire , who has , for some time past been advertising for " facts " to support his case , re-introduced the subject of the distress which prevails in certain districts in the west of Ireland . The hon . gentlemen spoke of several deaths from starvation , and contended that the Poor-laAV machinery AVIIS wholly inadequate to relieve the mass of suffering which , he said , existed in many parts of the country .
He denied that the cry of distress had been raised by interested persons ; but Mr . Dawson , AVIIO followed him , contended that the crisis had been exaggerated , with a vieiv of damaging the Government in Ireland . Colonel Dickson maintained that the gravity of the case had not been exaggerated—a vieiv v'hich was combated by Sir Robert Peel , who , while admitting that distress existed "io some extent , " disputed the accuracy of Mr . Maguire ' s statement of "deaths from starvation . " After some further discussion Sir George Grej' said he believed the distress in Ireland ivas not so serious as that which prevailed in Lancashire and other parts of the kingdom , and his opinion
was , that the emergency could be met by a wise and humane administration ofthe poor laiA-s . The subject then dropped . On Monday , Mr . AValpole re-opened ( in Committee ) the discussion on the education question . The right hon . gentlemen ivas of opinion that it Avould be Aviso on the part of Parliament to accept the revised code , although he still entertained doubts as to the Avorking of the amended minutes in some particulars . He proceeded to state Avhat he considered AA-OUIC ! be improvements
upon some of the details of the schemes as it noiv stood , and expressed a fear that the neiv regulations ivhich still leave poor and neglected districts without assistance . Mr . Henley , Sir John Pakington , and other members , also accepted the neiv minutes with certain reservations ; and Mr . Loive having replied , Mr . Walpole withdrew the first of his eleven resolutions , which he had moved simply as a matter of form . Mr . Walter then moved— " That to require the employment of certificated
, masters and pupil teachers by managers of schools , as an indispensable condition of their participation in the parliamentary grant , is inexpedient and inconsistent ivith the principle of payment for results which form the basis of the revised code . " Mr . Thompson seconded the motion , which was opposed by Mr . Adderley , Sir S . Northcote , and Mr . Loive , and supported by Mr . Henley . After a good deal of discussion , Mr . Walter
consented to strike out the words " pupil teachers , " but the resolution , in its amended form , was rejected by a majority of eight . On Tuesday Mr . Darby Griffith asked Lord Palmerston " whether , with respect to events at Herat , any operation Avill be undertaken by the English or Indian government tending to pledge this country to hostility against Persia , or for or against Asiawithout consent of Parliament and the country "
, . The noble Lord , in reply , stated that no information Ai-hatever , tending to show that the Shah of Persia had undertaken operations against Herat , had been received either by the Home or the Indian government , — a not umvelcome announcement in the face of the statements so repeatedly made of late as to the danger of " another Affghan Avar . " The subject of the Spithead forts was again introduced by Sir James Elpbinstone , and Lord Palmerston
took the opportunity of reading the House a lesson on the danger involved in the assumption on the part of the Legislature of the proper functions of the Executive . The suspension of the Avorks at Spithead bad been ordered in consequence of
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the extraordinary effect produced upon the House by the engagement betAveen the Merrimac and the Monitor ; and much money and valuable time , he said , w-ill have been throivn away , if , after all , the Commissioners to whom the question has been referred should report in favour of pushing on the forts as necessary supports to our floating defences . Mr . Lyall , in moving for certain returns relating to the Government of Ceylon , urged the expediency of transferring the administration
of that colony from the Colonial to the Indian department . Mr . Chichester Fortescue and Lord Stanley dissented from the vieivs expressed by the member for Whitehaven , and , the motion for the returns having been agreed to , the subject dropped . Mr . AVhalley , amid a storm of derisive laughter and cries , then brought fonvard his motion on the Maynooth grant , " which , after a short debate , was negatived by 193 votes against 111 . On AVednesdayMr . M'Mahon moved the second
read-, ing of the County Courts Procedure Bill . He described the measure as one by Avhich the practice of the county courts would be assimilated to that of the superior courts . The Attorney-General opposed the bill as being for the most part unnecessary . Mr . Henley and Mr . Ayrton urged that something should be done to effect a change in tbe law as to the imprisonment of poor people for debt by county-court judges , and Sir George Grey promised that the matter should have the
attention of the Government . The second reading of the bill was then negatived without a division . Tho Smoke Nuisances ( Metropolis ) Acts Amendment Bill passed through committee . The House went into committee on the Public-houses ( Scotland ) Acts Amendment Bill , after some opposition from Mr . Cranfurd , and were occupied until a quarter to six o'clock with its various clauses . GENERAI , HOME NEWS . —A deputation has waited on the
President of the Poor-buv Board on the subject of the distress prevailing iu Lancashire . The deputation consisted almost entirely of the members for the manufacturing districts , and their object , as explained by Colonel AVilson Vatten , was to represent to the President of the Poor-law Board the inadequacy of the ordinary pauper regulations to meet the pressure of the present distress , and to suggest some relaxation of their stringency . Mr . A illiers stated , in reply , that the stringency
of these regulations had been much exaggerated ; that the boards of guardians had more in their discretion than was commonly believed , and especially that there was no rule in existence forbidding a man to receive relief till he iiarted with his household furniture . He suggested that the matter had better be left for the present in the hands of tbe guardians , who were doing their duty to his entire satisfaction . After some further conversation the deputation withdrew . A
deputation from the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law has also waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer , to induce the Government to take up again the bill for the concentration of the laiv courts , which met with an adverse vote on the motion for its second reading . Mr . Hastings stated the objects of the deputation , and urged the Government not to be influenced by the benchers of Lincoln ' s-inn in their decision . With regard to any extra expense which miht be incurred in
g the erection of the building it could be met by a small tax on the issue of ivrits . The Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to consult his colleagues in the Government on the matter . A Committee is being organised in London , for the purpose of making an appeal for a " general fund" to assist the distressed operatives of Lancashire and Cheshire . The "first list" of this Committee includes the names of Lords SeftonDerbStanley
, y , , Crawford , Ellesmere , and Lindsay ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Col . AAllson Patten , and other members of Parliament . The Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Derby have each subscribed £ 50 to the Blackburn Relief Fuud—welcome gifts no doubt ; but even in Blackburn , where the pressure of the times is so severely felt , the balance of opinion is against making an appeal to the nation for relief until it shall have been made
perfectly clear that such a step can no longer be resisted . The Duke of Devonshire has been formally installed High Steward of Cambridge . The day was one of general festivity in Cambridge . Advantage ivas taken of the event to open the neiv public rooms , in which a breakfast ivas given to the High Steivard . A curious law question affecting the right of property in the lands left 350 years ago by Dean Colet for the maintenance of St . Paul's School has lately heen argued before Alce-Chancellor Kindersley . The lands are in Buckinghamshire ; and Baron Rothschild having bought up the property all round them , wishes to round off his family estate by absorb-
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The Week.
I MPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —On Friday the 2 nd inst ., the Archbishop of Canterbury's Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Bill , and the Reg istration of Voters Bill , ^ were read a second timetbe former being at the same time ordered to be referred to a Select Committee . On Monday three of the titles to land bills were read a third time , and passed ; and the Exchequer Bonds Bill passed through Committe . On Tuesday the
Transfer of Stocks ( Ireland ) Bill ivas read a second time ; and the Exchequer Bonds Bill a third time . In the House of Commons on the 1 st inst ., the Markets and Fairs ( Ireland ) bill passed through committee ; the births and deaths reg istration ( Ireland ) bill ivas read a second time ; and the survey registration ( Ireland ) Ibill passed through Committee . Friday the 2 nd Sir G . C Leivis announced that ho intended
shortly to ask for leave to bring in a bill for another loan in connection with the ntaional defences . The right lion . Baronet further stated , in reply to a question from Lord Elcho , that the Eoyal Commission on the volunteer movement had been nominated . Mr . Layard , in reply ^ to Mr . AV . E . Forster , stated that a commercial treaty between this country and Italy was about to be negotiated , and that the government of Turin had
already despatched a commissioner to London . One or two other questions having been disposed of , Mr . Maguire , who has , for some time past been advertising for " facts " to support his case , re-introduced the subject of the distress which prevails in certain districts in the west of Ireland . The hon . gentlemen spoke of several deaths from starvation , and contended that the Poor-laAV machinery AVIIS wholly inadequate to relieve the mass of suffering which , he said , existed in many parts of the country .
He denied that the cry of distress had been raised by interested persons ; but Mr . Dawson , AVIIO followed him , contended that the crisis had been exaggerated , with a vieiv of damaging the Government in Ireland . Colonel Dickson maintained that the gravity of the case had not been exaggerated—a vieiv v'hich was combated by Sir Robert Peel , who , while admitting that distress existed "io some extent , " disputed the accuracy of Mr . Maguire ' s statement of "deaths from starvation . " After some further discussion Sir George Grej' said he believed the distress in Ireland ivas not so serious as that which prevailed in Lancashire and other parts of the kingdom , and his opinion
was , that the emergency could be met by a wise and humane administration ofthe poor laiA-s . The subject then dropped . On Monday , Mr . AValpole re-opened ( in Committee ) the discussion on the education question . The right hon . gentlemen ivas of opinion that it Avould be Aviso on the part of Parliament to accept the revised code , although he still entertained doubts as to the Avorking of the amended minutes in some particulars . He proceeded to state Avhat he considered AA-OUIC ! be improvements
upon some of the details of the schemes as it noiv stood , and expressed a fear that the neiv regulations ivhich still leave poor and neglected districts without assistance . Mr . Henley , Sir John Pakington , and other members , also accepted the neiv minutes with certain reservations ; and Mr . Loive having replied , Mr . Walpole withdrew the first of his eleven resolutions , which he had moved simply as a matter of form . Mr . Walter then moved— " That to require the employment of certificated
, masters and pupil teachers by managers of schools , as an indispensable condition of their participation in the parliamentary grant , is inexpedient and inconsistent ivith the principle of payment for results which form the basis of the revised code . " Mr . Thompson seconded the motion , which was opposed by Mr . Adderley , Sir S . Northcote , and Mr . Loive , and supported by Mr . Henley . After a good deal of discussion , Mr . Walter
consented to strike out the words " pupil teachers , " but the resolution , in its amended form , was rejected by a majority of eight . On Tuesday Mr . Darby Griffith asked Lord Palmerston " whether , with respect to events at Herat , any operation Avill be undertaken by the English or Indian government tending to pledge this country to hostility against Persia , or for or against Asiawithout consent of Parliament and the country "
, . The noble Lord , in reply , stated that no information Ai-hatever , tending to show that the Shah of Persia had undertaken operations against Herat , had been received either by the Home or the Indian government , — a not umvelcome announcement in the face of the statements so repeatedly made of late as to the danger of " another Affghan Avar . " The subject of the Spithead forts was again introduced by Sir James Elpbinstone , and Lord Palmerston
took the opportunity of reading the House a lesson on the danger involved in the assumption on the part of the Legislature of the proper functions of the Executive . The suspension of the Avorks at Spithead bad been ordered in consequence of
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the extraordinary effect produced upon the House by the engagement betAveen the Merrimac and the Monitor ; and much money and valuable time , he said , w-ill have been throivn away , if , after all , the Commissioners to whom the question has been referred should report in favour of pushing on the forts as necessary supports to our floating defences . Mr . Lyall , in moving for certain returns relating to the Government of Ceylon , urged the expediency of transferring the administration
of that colony from the Colonial to the Indian department . Mr . Chichester Fortescue and Lord Stanley dissented from the vieivs expressed by the member for Whitehaven , and , the motion for the returns having been agreed to , the subject dropped . Mr . AVhalley , amid a storm of derisive laughter and cries , then brought fonvard his motion on the Maynooth grant , " which , after a short debate , was negatived by 193 votes against 111 . On AVednesdayMr . M'Mahon moved the second
read-, ing of the County Courts Procedure Bill . He described the measure as one by Avhich the practice of the county courts would be assimilated to that of the superior courts . The Attorney-General opposed the bill as being for the most part unnecessary . Mr . Henley and Mr . Ayrton urged that something should be done to effect a change in tbe law as to the imprisonment of poor people for debt by county-court judges , and Sir George Grey promised that the matter should have the
attention of the Government . The second reading of the bill was then negatived without a division . Tho Smoke Nuisances ( Metropolis ) Acts Amendment Bill passed through committee . The House went into committee on the Public-houses ( Scotland ) Acts Amendment Bill , after some opposition from Mr . Cranfurd , and were occupied until a quarter to six o'clock with its various clauses . GENERAI , HOME NEWS . —A deputation has waited on the
President of the Poor-buv Board on the subject of the distress prevailing iu Lancashire . The deputation consisted almost entirely of the members for the manufacturing districts , and their object , as explained by Colonel AVilson Vatten , was to represent to the President of the Poor-law Board the inadequacy of the ordinary pauper regulations to meet the pressure of the present distress , and to suggest some relaxation of their stringency . Mr . A illiers stated , in reply , that the stringency
of these regulations had been much exaggerated ; that the boards of guardians had more in their discretion than was commonly believed , and especially that there was no rule in existence forbidding a man to receive relief till he iiarted with his household furniture . He suggested that the matter had better be left for the present in the hands of tbe guardians , who were doing their duty to his entire satisfaction . After some further conversation the deputation withdrew . A
deputation from the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law has also waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer , to induce the Government to take up again the bill for the concentration of the laiv courts , which met with an adverse vote on the motion for its second reading . Mr . Hastings stated the objects of the deputation , and urged the Government not to be influenced by the benchers of Lincoln ' s-inn in their decision . With regard to any extra expense which miht be incurred in
g the erection of the building it could be met by a small tax on the issue of ivrits . The Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to consult his colleagues in the Government on the matter . A Committee is being organised in London , for the purpose of making an appeal for a " general fund" to assist the distressed operatives of Lancashire and Cheshire . The "first list" of this Committee includes the names of Lords SeftonDerbStanley
, y , , Crawford , Ellesmere , and Lindsay ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Col . AAllson Patten , and other members of Parliament . The Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Derby have each subscribed £ 50 to the Blackburn Relief Fuud—welcome gifts no doubt ; but even in Blackburn , where the pressure of the times is so severely felt , the balance of opinion is against making an appeal to the nation for relief until it shall have been made
perfectly clear that such a step can no longer be resisted . The Duke of Devonshire has been formally installed High Steward of Cambridge . The day was one of general festivity in Cambridge . Advantage ivas taken of the event to open the neiv public rooms , in which a breakfast ivas given to the High Steivard . A curious law question affecting the right of property in the lands left 350 years ago by Dean Colet for the maintenance of St . Paul's School has lately heen argued before Alce-Chancellor Kindersley . The lands are in Buckinghamshire ; and Baron Rothschild having bought up the property all round them , wishes to round off his family estate by absorb-