The Week.

Mimes moved an amendment , limiting Mr . Buxton ' s resolution to subscription to the Prayer-book . Sir George Grey opposed both motion and amendment , but declared that in the opinion of the Government the state of the law on the subject was not satisfactory . After hearing this speech Mr . Milnes withdrew his amendment , and Sir George Grey moved the previous question , with a view of leaving the subject open for inquiry . This

did not please Mr . Newdegate , who thought the Government ¦ should have taken a more decided position . Mr . Walpole also would prefer to have the [ motion met by a direct negative in place of the previous question . Mr . Morrison , Sir Stafford Northcote , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . Butler Johnstone , Mr . Disraeli , and others , afterwards spoke . Eventually

the previous question was agreed to . On AA ednesday the Innkeepers' Liability Bill , passed through committee , as did also the Savings Banks Act Amendment Bill . The Election Petition Bill , which seeks to amend the law relating to election petitions , was after some discussion , read a second time , it being understood that some amendments would be admitted in committee .

The Metropolitan Turnpike Roads Acts Amendment Bill passed through committee . Several other measures were advanced a stage , and the House adjourned before six o ' clock . GENEEAL HOME NEWS . —The health of London continues to Improve , the average number of deaths slowly falling to the average point . They have not yet reached that point , however ;

the number last week was 1132 . But it was a decrease of 82 from the mortality of the previous week . The births numbered 1848 , which was slightly below the ten years' average . The monthly return , prepared by the Honarary Secretary of the Central Relief Committee , shows that in the week ending the -30 th of May the number of cotton workers wholly unemployed was 191 , 199 . These figures represent a vast amount of suffering ,

but it is some consolation to know thafc during the interval between the last week in April and the last week in May , the number of persons out of work had undergone a decrease of 24 , 313 . " The board of guardians , " says Mr . Maclure , have reduced the number of persons relieved by them from 184 , 172 to 160 , 890 , being 23 , 282 less than in April , and the local committees

show a reduction of the number of persons solely dependant on them of 46 , 856 . " The report urges that local relief committees should cut down their expenditure wherever such a . step is practicable , as there is reason to believe that no large addition will be made to the funds which have already been received . A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in tbe Houses of

Parliament—apparently in one of the committee-rooms—but it was noon extinguished . The Dundonald case was before the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords ou Tuesday . It may be proper to state thafc tbe case was brought by the eldest son of the celebrated sailor , who prayed their lordships to declare him the legitimate son of his father and the rightful inheritor

of the title . The claim was in the first instance disputed by Captain Cochrane , at present in command of tbe Warrior , and some strange testimony was given , aspersing the character of the mother of both claimants . On Tuesday the venerable lady herself appeared and indignantly denied the aspersions . The committee found themselves in an embarrassing

position—in now being called to decide a case on ex parte statements , for Capt . Cochrane at the last meeting withdrew his opposition ; but they determined , as the case had been begun , it ought now to be heard through , and their lordships adjourned to Monday next for its further hearing . The Court of Queen ' s Bench has been engaged in hearing Colonel Calthorpe's reply to the

charge of libel brought against him by Lord Cardigan . Mr . Serjeant Shee , on behalf of the gallant officer , showed cause against the rule recently obtained by Lord Cardigan . It was

stated that Colonel Calthorpe had destroyed the last edition of his book , but the learned Sergeant asked the Court to discharge the rule on three grounds : — "First , that , the only passages in Colonel Calthorpe ' s book complained of by the Earl of Cardigan were the result honestly expressed of information fairly obtained at the time , and that these statements were in all substantial

matters the truth ; secondly , that the conduct of Lord Cardigan towards Colonel Calthorpe since the publication ' of the first edition of the book and the conduct of Colonel Calthorpe towards Lord Cardigan had been , according to the ordinary practice of the Court , such as to disentle Lord Cardigan to the special interference which he asked ; and , thirdly , that the war in the

Crimea and the conduct of the public men in the service of the Crown in connection with it had , at the time the alleged libels were published , become matters of history and free comment and discussion . " The rule was discharged without costs . Tbe Lord Chancellor has given an important decision under the new Bankruptcy Act . A Mr . Laforest was adjudged a

bankrupt on the 6 th of October last , and on the 28 th of November Mr . Commissioner Holroyd decided that he was entitled to an order of discharge . The order was signed on the 30 th of the following month , but in the interval between tbe 28 th of November and the 30 th of December , some property was bequeathed to Laforest . The assignee claimed this property

, on the ground that the order of discharge should date from the day on which it was signed , ancl not from the day on which it was verbally pronounced by the Commissioner . The Commissioner decided in favour of the assignees ; but the Lord Chancellor reversed this decision—thus holding that the order of discharge takes effect immediately on its being granted verbally by the Court . Tbe case of Mr . Wadecharged with the

, outrages on women , has been postponed till next sessions of tbe Central Criminal Court . The Rev . Thomas AVycherley has been tried and found guilty of receiving stolen money , knowing it to have been stolen . It will be remembered that a girl , named Newton , robbed her mistress of several bank-notes , most of which she swore AVycherley received from ber . His

trial commenced at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday , and was continued on Wednesday . Eventually he was found guilty and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . He protested his innocence . The body of a young woman has been found in the London Docks under circumstances which lead to the conclusion that she had been murdered . Her head was off , and on the neck was a deep gash . The body has been identified as thaat of Ellen Donovan , who for some time past has

cohabited with a pugilist named King . Last Thursday he quarrelled with her and threatened to beat her ; when she left the house , and he had not seen her since . A woman , named Fawcett , the wife of a saddler , residing in Ashton Old Road , has been committed for trial at Manchester , on a charge of having attempted to murder her husband . Early in the morning , Fawcett was awakened by a sensation

of pricking in his throat , and he then saw his wife standing over him with a knife in her hand . When taken into cusfcody the woman expressed her regret that she had not been able to complete her design . She intended , she said , to cut her husband ' s throat , and then destroy her own life . Faweett was only slightly wounded in the throat . The murder of Mr . Jacksonof Mount Pleasantnear Nenagh , must be described

, , as one of the most atrocious crimes that stain the annals of Tipperary . It seems that the unfortunate gentleman , who was one of the most popular landowners in the county , was taking a walk through his own grounds , when he was struck from behind , and brought clown by a blow which must have produced instantaneous death . He was robbed of his money ancl watch , and this circumstance leads the Freeman ' s Journal

to throw doubt on the statement that the assassination had what is called an agrarian origin . It appears , however , to be certain that several of Mr . Jackson's tenants who had paid no rent for the last three or four years , had been served with notices of ejectment . These men are in custody , as well as the deceased gentleman ' s steward and tbe steward's son . A large reward has been offered for such evidence as shall lead to the conviction of the person or persons concerned in this murder , but as the Freeman ' s Journal remarks , " we know the