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The Week.
House approved the policy of non-interference by force of arms which the Government had adopted On Tuesday , Mr . Hardcastle asked whether the Brazilian Government had fulfilled their obligations with regard to Africans captured by British ships of war and liberated hy the Mixed Commission at Rio . Mr . Bright and Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald urged the repeal of the Aberdeen Act , which authorises the
capture of Brazilian slavers by British cruisers , but Lord Palmerston opposed such a measure , contending that it would be followed by the revival of the horrible traffic which the act was designed to suppress . —In reply to a question from Mr . Baillie Cochrane , Mr . Milner Gibson said it might be possible hy legislation to compel railway companies to introduce some
machinery by which passengers could communicate Avith the guards ; but he doubted the expediency of bringing in a bill on the subject . — The House was counted out at a quarter-past seven o ' clock . On Wednesday , the orders of the day for the second reading of the Superior Courts of Common Law Bill , and for the committal of the Court of Queen's Bench
( Ireland ) Bill , ancl of the Married Woman ' s Acknowledgments Bill , were discharged . Mr . Bouverie , in moving the second reading of the Uniformity Act Amendment Bill , observed that the bill Avas very brief ancl simple in its provisions , its purpose being to repeal certain portions of the Act of Uniformity which required assent and subscription on the part of those
who aspired to hold fellowships in the universities . By an act passed in the year 1856 it was provided that as regarded all degrees , excepting those of a theological character , no declaration should he required . He asked the House to repeal this provision , because it was unjust to the large and influential body of Protestant Non-conformists , and because it was injurious to the universities as well as to the Church of England .
Mr . Walpole moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months . The result of the adoption of this measure would be to draw away from secular education that foundation of religions instruction upon which the education of the country stood , and upon which the country was determined that it should continue to stand . Upon a division the hill was rejected by a majority of 56 , there being for the second reading
101 , against it 157 . —Sir W . Heathcote moved the second reading of the Scottish Episcopal Clergy Disabilities Removal Bill . The hon . baronet contended that the present state of the law was quite anomalous , and he trusted that the House would assent to this bill , the provisions of which had been ¦ carefully considered and sifted by an important committee of
the House of Lords . After some discussion the bill was read a second time . Several bills were then withdrawn , and others advanced a stage . GENERAL HOAIE NEAVS . —The health of the metropolis is always affected at this season of the year hy diarrhoea , ancl this disease figures largely in the Registrar General's report as
contributing to the mortality of last week . Measles also are prevalent , especially in the ' east end of the town . The deaths from all causes during the week amounted to 1 , 20 S , which is about 100 higher than the corrected averages of the last ten years . The deaths for the quarter past are move than a thousand in excess of the aggregate for any of the last three corresponding
quarters . The births for the week were 1 , 7 S 6 , which was about 90 in excess of the average . Mr . Mac-lure ' s very cheerful report for June receives further illustration from Mr . Purdy's statement of the amount of pauperism in the cotton manufacturing unions in the past week of the present month . Fifteen unions exhibited a decrease of 1 , 849 paupers ; four remain without any change of number ; and two show a total increase of 160—therefore , leaving a net diminution for the whole
district of 1 , 680 . Ashton-under-Lyne union relieved 310 ; Burnley union , 250 ; and Preston union 400 fewer persons than in the last week of June . At the same time , the cost of out-relief diminished by £ 203 . The adult able-bodied now on the rates amount to 21 , 200 ; last week nearly 700 were struck off the union relief lists . The total pauperism of the distressed unions is now 92 , 690 , or very considerably bebw the point at which it
stood when the Government sent a special commissioner into Lancashire , to be at the disposal of the relief committees during the crisis . A supplement to the London Gazelle contains a memorandum from the Admiralty , by which the number of captains in the navy is to be reduced from 350 to 300 ; of commanders , from 450 to 400 ; and of lieutenants , from 1 , 200 to
1 , 000 . The manner in which these reductions is to be made , and the advantages to be secured on retirement are detailed in the memorandum . The Queen's ( Westminster ) Regiment of Volunteers was inspected on Saturday in the Regent ' s-park by Colonel M'Murdo . The regiment mustered in sufficient force to form two brigades , under the command of Earl Grosvenor , and
their appearance , discipline , and activity on parade were such as to elicit the warm approbation of the inspector . The ground was kept hy a strong body of the West Middlesex Volunteers under the command of Lord Radstock . The Wimbledon meeting Avas inaugurated on Monday in the same way as last year . His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales was received at five o ' clock at the Putney entrance , on the north side of the enclosure by several members of the council , aud conducted to the running deer range , Avhere the shooting proved tobe very had indeed—the Prince , however , fairly beating such accomplished deerstalkers as the Master of Lovat and Lord Elcho . After inspecting the arrangements for the meeting his Royal Highness returned soon after six o'clock to
London . Several matches were shot off on Tuesday at Wimbledon , among them those for the Oxford ancl Cambridge Bronze Medal , which was won by Cambridge , and the Middlesex Bronze Medal , won by an officer in the 41 st Middlesex . ^—The great cricket match of the public schools , Harrow ancl Eton which began on Friday , was finished on Saturday , Harrow being victors in their first innings—an event which was the cause of
vociferous congratulation on the part of their friends . The Prince of AVales was on the ground ; and though too late to witness the closing scenes of this match , he took a keen interest in one that followed , and did not leave the ground till five o ' clock in the afternoon . The experiments that have been going on for some time past have now assumed an unusual
degree of interest . The competition between the Whitworth and Armstrong guns has not been allowed altogether to exclude experiments with the guns of other inventors . The select committee on ordnance have now arrived on the ground with four guns , the same in material , length , and calibre , differing only in their rifling , ancl the committee expect to decide hetwixt
them in the course of three weeks . In addition to this a 100-pounder gun has been tried , which was found capable of smashing in a target of Gift , iron plate , ancl about three yards of oak backing . This was actually done at 200 yards , and according to the calculation of the scientific men present , the same effect would bo produced at 4 . 000 yards , by merely increasing the
charge of powder . The Great Eastern has left the Mersey for theThames , to take on board the Atlantic telegraph cable . A curious case affecting the rights of literary property is now before Vice-Chancellor Kinclevsley . The well-known publishers , Messrs . Sampson Low and Co ., bought the copyright of a novel written by Miss Cummins , a native of the United States , but who has long been and is now resident in Quebec . The equally well-known publishers , Messrs . Routledge , brought out
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The Week.
House approved the policy of non-interference by force of arms which the Government had adopted On Tuesday , Mr . Hardcastle asked whether the Brazilian Government had fulfilled their obligations with regard to Africans captured by British ships of war and liberated hy the Mixed Commission at Rio . Mr . Bright and Mr . Seymour Fitzgerald urged the repeal of the Aberdeen Act , which authorises the
capture of Brazilian slavers by British cruisers , but Lord Palmerston opposed such a measure , contending that it would be followed by the revival of the horrible traffic which the act was designed to suppress . —In reply to a question from Mr . Baillie Cochrane , Mr . Milner Gibson said it might be possible hy legislation to compel railway companies to introduce some
machinery by which passengers could communicate Avith the guards ; but he doubted the expediency of bringing in a bill on the subject . — The House was counted out at a quarter-past seven o ' clock . On Wednesday , the orders of the day for the second reading of the Superior Courts of Common Law Bill , and for the committal of the Court of Queen's Bench
( Ireland ) Bill , ancl of the Married Woman ' s Acknowledgments Bill , were discharged . Mr . Bouverie , in moving the second reading of the Uniformity Act Amendment Bill , observed that the bill Avas very brief ancl simple in its provisions , its purpose being to repeal certain portions of the Act of Uniformity which required assent and subscription on the part of those
who aspired to hold fellowships in the universities . By an act passed in the year 1856 it was provided that as regarded all degrees , excepting those of a theological character , no declaration should he required . He asked the House to repeal this provision , because it was unjust to the large and influential body of Protestant Non-conformists , and because it was injurious to the universities as well as to the Church of England .
Mr . Walpole moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months . The result of the adoption of this measure would be to draw away from secular education that foundation of religions instruction upon which the education of the country stood , and upon which the country was determined that it should continue to stand . Upon a division the hill was rejected by a majority of 56 , there being for the second reading
101 , against it 157 . —Sir W . Heathcote moved the second reading of the Scottish Episcopal Clergy Disabilities Removal Bill . The hon . baronet contended that the present state of the law was quite anomalous , and he trusted that the House would assent to this bill , the provisions of which had been ¦ carefully considered and sifted by an important committee of
the House of Lords . After some discussion the bill was read a second time . Several bills were then withdrawn , and others advanced a stage . GENERAL HOAIE NEAVS . —The health of the metropolis is always affected at this season of the year hy diarrhoea , ancl this disease figures largely in the Registrar General's report as
contributing to the mortality of last week . Measles also are prevalent , especially in the ' east end of the town . The deaths from all causes during the week amounted to 1 , 20 S , which is about 100 higher than the corrected averages of the last ten years . The deaths for the quarter past are move than a thousand in excess of the aggregate for any of the last three corresponding
quarters . The births for the week were 1 , 7 S 6 , which was about 90 in excess of the average . Mr . Mac-lure ' s very cheerful report for June receives further illustration from Mr . Purdy's statement of the amount of pauperism in the cotton manufacturing unions in the past week of the present month . Fifteen unions exhibited a decrease of 1 , 849 paupers ; four remain without any change of number ; and two show a total increase of 160—therefore , leaving a net diminution for the whole
district of 1 , 680 . Ashton-under-Lyne union relieved 310 ; Burnley union , 250 ; and Preston union 400 fewer persons than in the last week of June . At the same time , the cost of out-relief diminished by £ 203 . The adult able-bodied now on the rates amount to 21 , 200 ; last week nearly 700 were struck off the union relief lists . The total pauperism of the distressed unions is now 92 , 690 , or very considerably bebw the point at which it
stood when the Government sent a special commissioner into Lancashire , to be at the disposal of the relief committees during the crisis . A supplement to the London Gazelle contains a memorandum from the Admiralty , by which the number of captains in the navy is to be reduced from 350 to 300 ; of commanders , from 450 to 400 ; and of lieutenants , from 1 , 200 to
1 , 000 . The manner in which these reductions is to be made , and the advantages to be secured on retirement are detailed in the memorandum . The Queen's ( Westminster ) Regiment of Volunteers was inspected on Saturday in the Regent ' s-park by Colonel M'Murdo . The regiment mustered in sufficient force to form two brigades , under the command of Earl Grosvenor , and
their appearance , discipline , and activity on parade were such as to elicit the warm approbation of the inspector . The ground was kept hy a strong body of the West Middlesex Volunteers under the command of Lord Radstock . The Wimbledon meeting Avas inaugurated on Monday in the same way as last year . His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales was received at five o ' clock at the Putney entrance , on the north side of the enclosure by several members of the council , aud conducted to the running deer range , Avhere the shooting proved tobe very had indeed—the Prince , however , fairly beating such accomplished deerstalkers as the Master of Lovat and Lord Elcho . After inspecting the arrangements for the meeting his Royal Highness returned soon after six o'clock to
London . Several matches were shot off on Tuesday at Wimbledon , among them those for the Oxford ancl Cambridge Bronze Medal , which was won by Cambridge , and the Middlesex Bronze Medal , won by an officer in the 41 st Middlesex . ^—The great cricket match of the public schools , Harrow ancl Eton which began on Friday , was finished on Saturday , Harrow being victors in their first innings—an event which was the cause of
vociferous congratulation on the part of their friends . The Prince of AVales was on the ground ; and though too late to witness the closing scenes of this match , he took a keen interest in one that followed , and did not leave the ground till five o ' clock in the afternoon . The experiments that have been going on for some time past have now assumed an unusual
degree of interest . The competition between the Whitworth and Armstrong guns has not been allowed altogether to exclude experiments with the guns of other inventors . The select committee on ordnance have now arrived on the ground with four guns , the same in material , length , and calibre , differing only in their rifling , ancl the committee expect to decide hetwixt
them in the course of three weeks . In addition to this a 100-pounder gun has been tried , which was found capable of smashing in a target of Gift , iron plate , ancl about three yards of oak backing . This was actually done at 200 yards , and according to the calculation of the scientific men present , the same effect would bo produced at 4 . 000 yards , by merely increasing the
charge of powder . The Great Eastern has left the Mersey for theThames , to take on board the Atlantic telegraph cable . A curious case affecting the rights of literary property is now before Vice-Chancellor Kinclevsley . The well-known publishers , Messrs . Sampson Low and Co ., bought the copyright of a novel written by Miss Cummins , a native of the United States , but who has long been and is now resident in Quebec . The equally well-known publishers , Messrs . Routledge , brought out