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matter . —The other business was of no special importance . On the 18 th inst ., LordNaas was able to give the House some satisfactory news from Kerry . The number of insurgents had never been great , and they had met with no support from the peasantry . He praised the courage of the constable Duggan , ¦ who was wounded , and the conduct of the Rev . Mr . M'Ginn ,

¦ who bearded the insurgents , and advised them to disperse . Subsequently , the House went into committee of supply , and voted certain supplementary estimates of a pressing nature . Both the army and navy estimates were laid on the table in the course of the evening . Later , the Trades' Union Bill was read a second time after a short debate . In the House , on the

12 th inst ., LordNaas gave notice that he should move for leave to introduce a bill to further suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus in Ireland . —When the questions had been answered ,. Mr . Seely brought forward his motion for a reform of the Admiralty . Mr . Seely made some extraordinary exposures of the Admiralty system . This led to a long aud interesting debate . On the 20 th instant Mr . MeLaron moved tho second reading of a bill to abolish the annuity tax iu Edinburgh . By an -Act passed in 18 C 0 the stipends of tho ministers of the established churches

in Edinburgh wore ordered to bo paid by tho corporation , who were empowered to levy a tax for that purpose , which tax was collected with the police-rate . Mr . McLaren's bill abolished this tax , and gave- tho clergy their pow-rents and a sum of £ 2 , 000 a year from tho port of Loith , to which thoy are entitled . Further , it proposed to . reduce tho number of tho ministers , so that tho stipend of each should be at least £ G 0 O . The bill was opposed

by Sir J . Ferguson , Mr . Moncrieff , Mr . Cumming Brnco , and Mr . Miller , and supported by Mr . Baxter , Mr . Crmn-Ewing , and Mr . Hadfield . On a . division the bill -was rejected by 107 votes to 74 . —Another subject of a briof debate was a motion by Lord Naas for leave to introduco a bill to renew tho suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland for a short period . His lordship

asked that tho debato upon tho bill might tako placo . Dr . Brady , Mr . Cogan , and Sir P . O'Brien spoke very briofly , and leave was given to bring in tho bill . It was read a first time . — Mr . Bernal Osborno made a gallant attempt to get a pledge from Lord John Manners that the ladies' gallery should bo improved . Mr . Osborno wanted the brass railings in front of tho gallery removed , but that , his lordship said , was too delicato a matter to bo dealt with off-hand . Ho woidd do all ho could to improve tho ventilation .

GENERAL H OJIE NEWS . —Tho health of London during tho . past week is reported by tho Registrar-General to be in a satisfactory condition , tho deaths being 114 less than tho estimated aevrago . The annual rates of mortality per 1 , 000 wero in thirteen of tho principal places as follows : —Bristol , 28 ; London and Birmingham , 24 ; Hull , 25 ; Sheffield , 2 G ; Salford , Leods ,

and Edinburgh , 28 ; Glasgow and Manchester , 30 ; Liverpool , 31 ; Dublin , 34 ; and Nowcastle-on-Tyno , 37 . Earl Granville distributed , on tho lGth inst ., the prizes to successful students in tho Fomalo School of Art . Tho institution appears to bo doiwr good service . Earl Granville ' s speech was thoroughly appropriate . Tho rising in Kerry turns out to bo a most insi gnificant

affair , and to havo been occasioned mainly by tho arrest of Captain Moriarty , an American agent , who had been residing for somo tfmo past at Cahivciveen . There is always a spy in ovory camp , and so somebody informed a magistrate at Killarnoy that mischief was browing , that this Moriarty was at tho bottom of it , and that on a certain day ho would proceed by mail car from

Konniaro to Killarnoy , with his pockets filled with important documents . Captain Moriarty was of courso arrested , and various papers in tho handwriting of Stephens woro found on his person—ono letter being addressed to " Brother

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Sheehan , " at Killarney , and another to " Bro .. O'Connor , " at Cahirciveen . The authorities ought to be very much obliged to the Fenians for the trouble they take to supply them with all the information they want . The story that Stephens has landed appears to be an assumption rather than a fact , and an assumption which is rather disproved by the existence of the

Sheehan and O'Connor correspondence . The thousands of Fenians have now dwindled down to hundreds . The latest telegram states that "Toomie Wood" was being examined to discover a party of fifty Fenians " wearing long boots and green coats . " One thing is happily certain . The Fenians were few in number , and the population refused to take part in their

movement Mr . Gathorne Hardy ' s bill in reference to tho Poor-law administration of London , does not meet with universal acceptance . A special meeting of the Marylebone guardians was held on the 18 th inst ., to discuss it , and strong objections were urged to some parts of the measure . Eventually it was resolved to appoint a deputation to wait upon Mr . Hardy in

reference to the bill . The polling for East Suffolk took place ou the ISth inst ., and resulted in the return of Mr . Corrance , the Tory candidate . The numbers at the close of the poll were : Corrance , 2 , 506 ; Adair , 2 , 135 . ——At Bow-street , on the 19 th inst ., the examination of Colonel Nelson aud Lieutenant Brand was resumed . The proceedings

were of a very interesting character . Mr . Lewis , one of the witnesses for the prosecution , was again examined by Mr . Fitzjauies Stephen . He was subsequently cross-examined by Mr . Poland as to his own share in the courts-martial at Morant Bay .

Other witnesses were afterwards examined , and the case was adjourned . —There was a special meeting of the St . Pancras Board of Guardians to receive the report of a committee which had been appointed to inquire into alleged irregularities in the workhouse . The report was of the most sweepingly condemnatory character . It alleged that wholesale peculation had been practised in the workhouse j that there had been fearful waste

of stores ; that frightful immorality prevailed , that all kinds of irregularities had been permitted , and that the master and matron were wholly unfit for the position they held . There was a long debate upon the report . Eventually , however , it was adopted , and the master and matron were dismissed . At the Middlesex sessions a young woman named Hagar

Barrett was indicted for stealing three diamond studs and other articles , value £ 82 , the property of Nbwrojie Doosalhoy , a Parsee . It appeared that the prosecutor lived in a house of a Mr . Watton , Fairfield Lodge , Tottenham , where the . prisoner was employed as a domostic servant . For some unexp lained reason she was dismissed . On the evening of her departure from the house the property in question was missed . The prisoner was hunted upacknowledged having stolen the

dia-, monds , and stated that sho sold them to a jeweller in Oxfordstreot . Tho jowellory in question was produced , and tho conduct of tho jeweller was soveroly censured by tho assistant judge , who decided on adjourning tho caso . We are happy to announce that the Princess of Walos was safely delivered of a daughter on tho morning of the 20 th inst , and that hor condition is unaffected by tho attack of rhomnatism from which sho has boon sufforing .

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* 3 * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , ' Strand , London , W . C . F . B ., J . B ., BOYS' SCHOOL , AXD OTHERS . —Roports and correspondonco to hand , but too late for insertion in our prosont number . ERRATA . —In our report last week of Bro . Dr . Haynes' Oration , p . 122 , last lino but thrco of tho last vorso of the poetry , read for "heart throbs stray" "heart throbs strong ; " and in lino sovon from bottom of last column , samo page , for " washed and sanded" read " washed and sandaled . "