The Week.

heart aud his own convictions . He knows that the bill is framed to satisfy the scruples , the convictions , if you like , of the one hundred and fifty country gentlemen who sit behind him . " He added [ that large employers in the north of England , who had much to lose , were in favour of a very great extension of the suffrage ; and he warned the house that resistance is not always conservative . He asserted that the principles he had always advocated were in effect , conservative , though advocating progressand concluded by saying that a real and substantial

, measure of reform would add authority to the decisions of parliament , and shed a lustre , which time could never dim , on the benignant reign under which wo have the happiness to live . On Friday , Mr . AV . 0 . Stanley gave notice , that iu case the government reform bill failed to be read a second time , he would move a vote oE want of confidence in her Majesty ' s ministers . The adjourned debate was continued by Sir Stafford Northcote , who defended the government measure , as did Messrs , Drummond and Dent ; and Air . Stuart AVortley , Mr . CaldwellLord Harry Vane

, , and Mr . Paeke having spoken in opposition , Lord Palmerstou rose and announced his intention to support Lord John ' s resolution . The present was no vote of censure on the government ; it was , an amendment strictly appertaining to the subject , and brought prominently forward what were the leading features of the bill . There was one speech to which he would particularly allude , he referred to

the hon . gentleman Sir H . Cairns , who had infused personalities into his remarks , aud who had overstepped those bounds of forbearance which had been adhered to by honourable gentlemen on his side of the house . On Monday , Mr . Edwin James re-opened the debate in an able speech . Sir . James Graham said that the Reform Bill of 1 S 32 was an experiment , and a most successful one . He had long deemed it a final settlement , until he found finality no longer tenable . Tho object of all Reformers should be to render further reform impossible ; whereas -Lord Stanley had made it one of the merits of this scheme that it made further change easier

. He challenged tho ' government to say that he had giveu them any factious opposition . The course of liberals is clear ; to support the resolution , and reject the second reading of the bill . Sir John Pakington made a very spirited reply to the speecli of Lord Palmerstou . He explicitly and indignantly , on the part of the government , repudiated the advice offered . The House must either negative the resolution or lose the Bill . He also defended the right of the Crown to appeal to the country . -A public meeting was held on Monday last for the of

purpose organizing a movement to relieve the London Mechanics' Institution from the incubus of debt which ' presses upon it . Lord Carlisle , who presided , made a graceful appeal . The printed lists of subscriptions announced the receipt of more than one thousand six hundred pounds , and there can be no doubt that the object of the meeting will be accomplished ,

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS . AT the Princess ' s Theatre " . Henry the Fifth" has been selected by Mr . Kean as tho last of his Shaksperian revivals , and the performance on Monday night shows that he has devoted more than his usual amount of care and thought , to render it worthy of tho great reputation he lis achieved as an illustrator of our immortal poet . Mr . Kean in fact stands unrivalled as a manager ; Shakspeare ' s plays have been illustrated with more or less success by his contemporaries , but he has

outdone all previous efforts in this direction . He may indeed be said to have elevated stage management to the height of an actual science , by demonstrating in what manner theatrical representations may best be made an efficient educational agency . The play was exceedingly well cast , and every part was enacted with surprising spirit , from the manager himself down down to the lowest supernumerary . Tho part of Clients , which has hitherto been [ represented in the character of Time is given in the present revival in that of Clio , the muse of history , by which means an admirable part is provided for Mrs . Kean , who , we ueed hardly say delivers the splendid poetry with unrivalled point and felicity of diction . The three chief features in tho play are the siege of Harfleur , the marching away of the