The Week.

votes in aid of educational establishments should , so far as may be consistent with existing arrangements , be limited to those in which elementary instruction alone is given , and to those for the training of schoolmasters . The amendment was negatived . Mr . Osborne called attention to the practice of volunteers firing in Hyde Park , near Kensington Road , to the danger and annoyance of equestrians . Mr . Cowper promised that such instructions

should be given as would prevent the drill of the volunteers from interfering with the comfort of the public . The House went into Committee of Supply , and passed several votes . On Friday , the House held a morning sitting , which was wholly occupied with the consideration , in committee , of the bill for shortening the period of residence from five years to three , after whicli the poor shall be irremovable from the place where they have fallen into a state of

destitution .- —On Monday , a long debate took place on a resolution , moved by Lord Elcho , condemnatory of the Palladian design adopted for the new Foreign Office . The resolution was , of course , stoutly opposed by the Government , ancl was negatived by a large majority . The House then went into Committee of Supply , when a goodly number of votes were disposed of . The Appropriation of Seats Bill was considered as amendedWakefield being substituted

, for Pontefract as the polling place for the southern division of the AVest Riding . On Tuesday , the House held a morning sitting , which was wholly occupied with the further consideration of the Irremovable Poor Bill . At the evening sitting Mr . H . Berkeley , on receiving an assurance from Sir G . C . Lewis that it was intended to insert a clause in the Election Law Amendment Bill disfranchising Gloucester ancl Wakefield for a period of five years from

the presentation of the Commissioners' Report , withdrew the motion of which he had given notice for the issue of a writ for Gloucester . The Home Secretary , at a later stage of the sitting , said that , owing to the backward , state of the public business , he could make no promise with reference to the future progress of the Election Law Amendment Bill . Lord John Russell stated , in reply to Mr . Crawfordthat it was intendedif possibleto proceed

, , , with the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Bankruptcy Bill , on Monday night . A resolution , moved by Mr . B . Cochrane , to tho effect that the case of the naval captains placed on the Reserved List by Order of Council in 1851 , he referred to the Attorney-General for his opinion , was opposed by the Government , and negatived by a large majority . Sir G . C . Lewis obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the act relating to the payment

-of the expenses of prosecutions , and the House then went into Committee of Supply on the Miscellaneous Estimates . On AA ednesclay , the Fictitious Savings Banks Bill was withdrawn . So , also , as the Church-rates Law Amendment Bill , the second reading of which was moved by Mr . Hubbard . The A accination Bill passed through Committee . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —There were last week 1043 deaths in the metropolis , a number which exhibits , as compared with previous

periods , a very satisfactory state of the public health . —On the other hand , there were registered the births of 1747 children—870 boys and 877 girls . The barometer averaged 29-614 inches in height , and the mean temperature of the air was 59 ' 7 degrees . On Wednesday , a deputation waited upon Lord Palmerston to confer with him on the subject of the slave trade . Lord Brougham in introducing the deputation , referred with great satisfaction to the abolition by the Emperor of the French of the system of so-called

free immigration on the East Coast of Africa ; and Mr . Charles Buxton thought that measures should be taken to put a stop to the exportation of slaves at AVydah . Lord Palmerston , in reply , said that the conduct of Spain in the matter of the slave trade was marked by " great insincerity , " but that the rebuke which he administered to the Spanish Government the other night had induced them to send oft' to the Coast of Africa a number of cruisers . The Government of tho United States were now doing more than they

had ever done before to suppress the slave trade . He spoke approvingly of the appointment of consuls on the AVest Coast of Africa , but thought it dangerous to make the attempt in the dominions of the King of Dahomey . -The two Houses of Convocation for the province of Canterbury re-assembled on Monday , and the Upper House at once proceeded to take into consideration the resolution of the Lower House , affirming that there were sufficient grounds for proceeding to a synodical action on the book entitled Essays

and Reviews . The bishop of Chichester pointed out that the Bishop of Salisbury had lately instituted a suit against one of the writers of the book in question—the Rev . Dr . Rowland Williamsand that as the Archbishop of Canterbury ancl the Bishop of London would most probably be called on to act judicially in that suit , it was not expedient that their lordships should proceed , under these circumstances , in the discussion of the resolutions of the Lower House . His lordship accordingly moved a resolution to that effect , which , on being put by the archbishop , was carried nem . clis ., ancl communicated to the Lower House . The result of the official inquiry into tho loss of the Canadian has baer . w-. AIvshed . Mr .

Raffles , the stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool , and Captain Harris , the nautical assessor , by whom the investigation was conducted , attach no blame to the Captain of the ill-fated steamer . Captain Graham , ancl his officers ancl crew , are stated to have acted in a manner worthy of British Seamen , but the report questions the propriety of passing through the Belle Isle straits so early in the year as the month of May . It is suggested that the printed rules

of the company should be so altered as to forbid any captain taking this dangerous passage earlier than the 20 th of June—an arrangement , it is asserted , which would not be unacceptable to the company . —Flames are still occasionally rising from the Tooley-street ruins , but there appears to be little doubt that the fire is on the point of complete exhaustion . Traces of Mr . Scott , who perished close by the side of Mr . Braidwood , have at length been discovered . His watch , his portmanteau key , some coins , ancl a few pieces of human

bone have been found in . close proximity to each other under a mass of debris . -It is again reported that Lord Herbert , feeling himself unequal to the wear and tear of so onerous a department as the AA ar Office , has ' retired from the Ministry . One of Mr . Train's tramways—that laid clown in Bayswater Road , London—has been condemned . The Metropolitan Road Commissioners have , by a large majority , decided upon its removal , and the restoration of the road to its oriinal state . ——Mr .

g Mackley , a surgeon , residing at Bradford , has been committed for trial by the local Bench , on the charge of giving a false certificate of the death of a young woman who acted as his housekeeper , ancl who died at his residence . The eonroner ' s inquest on the bodies of the three men who were killed on the North Staffordshire

Railway , near Burton , on the 21 st of June , was brought to a close on Saturday ; the jury finding that the accident arose from two causes—the defective state of the line , and the high speed at which the train was travelling . The case of assault by Mr . Barnes upon Mr . Rich , at Cremorne Gardens , some short time ago , has been before the Middlesex sessions . The defendant expressed great sorrow for his conduct , but the counsel for Mr . Rice pressed for punishment in order to put a stop to such doings . The assistant

judge , after passing some severe reflections upon the conduct of the defendant , sentenced him to pay a fine of £ 25 . In the Central Criminal Court there has been one or two trials of public interest . Jane Palethorpe was tried on a charge of having killed her little boy by administering laudanum to him , and was acquitted . The case , it will be remembered , excited the public commisseration , on account of the extreme poverty of the unhappy woman . Frederick Strugnell was next put upon his trial on a charge of attempting

to murder Mary Ann Redkisson . This poor girl was the victim of what is known as the Islington outrage , the double object of which was robbery and murder , ancl in view of the frightful injuries which she sustained , her recovery must be regarded as verging on the miraculous . A verdict of guilty was returned , and the judge ordered sentence of death to be recorded against the prisoner . This sentence will , of course , be commuted to penal servitude for life . In the Court of Common Pleas on AVednesday , Lieut Allen

brought an action for illegal imprisonment against the Duke of Cambridge . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 200 . In the same Court an action was brought by Mr . Turnbull , late one of the calendered in the State Paper office , against Mr . Bird ,

secretary to the Protestant Alliance , to recover damages for two alleged libels . This action has its origin in a memorial that was drawn up ancl presented by a deputation to Lord Palmerston against Mr . Turnbull ' s appointment , in which memorial the alleged libels were inserted . The jury gave a verdict for the defendant . The appeal of the Rev . James Bonwell , incumbent of St . Philip , Stepney , has been before the Judical Committee of the Privy Council . Iu this case the Bishop of London , through proceedings

in the Court of Arches , had procured a sentence of deprivation against the appellant for certain circumstances connected with his intimacy with Miss Elizabeth Yorath . Mr . Bonwell , who conducts his case in person , urged that the bishop had acted in an irregular manner , and that the sentence ought consequently to be set aside . Judgment was reserved . COMMERCIAL . —At the meeting ofthe Union Bank of London the report was adopted , and a dividend of I 2 s per share for the half

year declared , the retiring directorsbeing re-elected . A deputation of Mexican bondholders on Monday waited on Lord John Russell , at the Foreign Office , on the subject of the Mexican debt . The deputation was introduced by Mr . Robertson , M . P ., who stated that there wero three points the deputation wished to urge on his lordship ; first , the restoration of the 660 , 000 dols . ; second , the enforcement of the agreements ; and third , the appointment of interventors to receive the Customs dues which were assigned for

the payment of the debt . Lord John Russell , in reply , stated that the owners of the 660 , 000 dols . were robbed of it , and that was admitted by the Mexican Government , ancl it must make the sum good . As to the agreements they must be adhered to , ami he had received a dispatch from the French Government ,