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adjourn equivalent to negativing that motion, he would assent thereto. Mr. KEATINO defended himself, declaring that the Opposition had been speaking against time on the Factory Bill in order to delay the debate on his reso lution. Mr. HILDTAIID then moved the adjournment of the house, which, at a quarter to four, was carried by 100 to 59—majority, d 1; the house having bat nearly fourteen hours. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BILL. The consideration of this bill in committee at a midday sitting on Tuesday was interrupted at the 49th clause by Captain SCOBELL, who moved the omission of the clause, which permitted English ships to be manned entirely by foreign sailors. This permission he described as unjust to the British seaman and dangerous to the marine interests and even the nautical supremacy of the country. It would destroy that, nursery for seamen which the mercantile navy had hitherto afforded, and drive the English sailors, among whom much just discontent already existed, into the American service. Mr. LABoucnEnK also expressed apprehensions of the effect?' of the clause, chiefly as regarded its possible political consequences. Under it foreigners might set up colourable ownerships over vessels whose crews, though without an Englishman amongst them, might commit acts effectually compromising England with foreign nations. Mr. CARDWELL was proceeding with much energy to declare that every precaution had been taken in framing the measure, and every necessary guarantee would be exacted for its safe and honest working, when four o'clock arrived, and the house stood ad journed. The bill consequently became a "dropped order." JUVENILE MENDICANCY BILL. The Earl of Sicorrgsuctiv, in moving the committal of this bill on Tuesday, enlarged upon the crimes and evils of which the uncared-for state of the poorer children in the metropolis was the most fertile source. It was ne►essary, he insisted, for the State to attempt $o interpose before distress and ignorance had ripened into such bitter fruits, by taking some charge of the juvenile population in the ante-criminal stage of their existence, and be outlined the progress that would be effected in that direction, under the provisions of the present measure. The Lost) CHANCELLOR, and Lords CAMPBELL and ilsocuams, while thoroughly approving the intention of the framer, found some insuperable objections to the form in which the bill was constructed, and, after some conversation, it was passed through committee merely pro foruid, in order that it might be referred to a select committee, and the opinion of the Poor Law Board ascertained upon its working clauses. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS BILL. The Reoond reading of this bill, whose sole object was that of raising the salary of the assistant judge of the Middlesex Court of Sessions—an office now filled by Mr. Sergeant Adams—from I,'•4tXU. to 1,500!. per annum, was moved on Tuesday by Mr. Lowx. The reasons for proposing the advance were stated by the hon. member to be the rapid increase in the business of that court, where the fees were low, and the whole expense of conducting prosecutions so moderate that the court was absorbing a large pro portion of the criminal jurisdiction in the metropo litan district. _ • Lord DUDLEY STUART opposed the motion, chiefly on pentonal grounds was a proposal which out of doors excited a good deal of surprise. The judge in question was one whose MUM , was frequently before the public, and unusually under the censure of the press. He exhibited, it was known, great vacillation in the discharge of his duties: changing light to severe sentences, and severe to light sentences ; as, on a recent occasion, in regard to the woman who called the accusing policeman ' a pig.' Was this a judge to have his salary increased? The private character of this learned person was distinguished by this lieculiarity—that he managed to succeed in what he had a fancy to. A judge had recently said of him, ' I hope he won't fancy my place, for if he did he would get it.' (('heers.) Apparently he wanted an increase of salary, and be was getting it from the House of Commons. But 1,1,00/. was ample." Mr. llowvEn agreed with Lord Dudley, and moved that the bill be read again that day six months. The ATTORNEY-OE:mum, deprecated allusions to " idle go4sip" concerning Mr. Sergeant Adams, and said that the simple question WAS, whether the ser geant should not have additional pay for the per formance of additional duties. ------------ ------- - - After Nome further discussion the house divided : For the second reading For the amendment 47 Majority The bill was read a second time. THE CAMP. Lord Join( RUStIET.I., n Witmer to Mr. Hume. state] that tie expousem of the CLIVIAI4I6 GAWP kid inn Pr41 14 v 4 fur I'4 LLo army THE PRESS. EDUCATION BILL Mr. Ltiingm. havhigliieii;vlietieiitwas the intention of the Government to proceed with the Education Bill iu the course of the present session ? turd J. RUSSELL said that, at all events, he should move the second reading, but he could nut say on what day. Mr. limoirr wished to be informed whether the Goverment intended to make any ettiirts to pass the bill this sestrintt. Lord J. Itussta.t.: I propose to take the second reading, but I do not mean to proceed any further. ilear,leetar.) MEDICAL PROFESSION.. Colonel having asked what was the determination of the Government as to a bill fur regulating the medical pro fession, Lord Pid.sontaros said be hoped to he able to bring in such a measure, probably not with the view of passing it this residual, but for the consideration of any übjyetioun that might lie made to it. if time allowed, lie might, however, propose to carry it through this voodoo. NAVIGATION OF '1'111•: DANUBE. In reply to au inquiry by Mr. LIDDELL, Lord l'ihucitscros stated that the obstruction to navigation hi the delta or the Danube, by which British vesteela were de tained in that river, had milieu from a natural cause—the accu mulation of mud on the bar, owing to the weather. lie added, however, that her Majesty'ss Government hued reason to complain or the conduct of the Itusaimi authorities iu neglecting to elear the mouths of a river over which they lied a control sunder the treaty or Adrianople, and which was a great highway to i s Err I NG-HOUSES. in answer to Mr. ll'Eu.arr. Lord Patiatawros ittatod that a bill would be immediately introduced by tiovernument on the subject of botting-lioulwa. I7NIVERSITV REFORM. Mr. llnvwwin has {Oren notice of his intention on the 2nd of August to mote for leave to bring in a bill to rentove certain disabilities which prevent suave classes of her Majesty's subjects (mini resorting to the University of Oxford', and from prweeding to the tirvitur biielielor's degrees marts, law, and weak:We iu the Universities utOt.funl and Ciuubridge. [ln the summary of the speech delivered by Mr. CUM MING BRUCE ou the India Bill, given in our last number, the hon. member is erroneously stated to have " approved, ulsa► the whole, of the present measure." It should have been printed the present " system," Mr. lime objecting to the measure that it would undermine the existing form of administration, and especially that it would prove " the derth•kuell of the mysteut of double govenuueut.") Sortign BO Colonial antellignut. [From our own Correspondent.] l'Auts, July 7. The Opira Comique reopened on Tuesday with Auber's opera of Harike, by command. The Em peror and. Empress, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Alba, and attended by all the Ministers and officers of state, assisted at the representation. The enemies of order, the members of secret asso ciations, were at their work. The police had got on the scent of their machinations, and at the entrance of the theatre many arrests were effected. This tithe the malefactors were taken with anus concealed on their persons. It is much to be deplored that the Emperor, regardless of the entreaties of his friends, persists in exposing his life every day, appearing everywhere unexpectedly without escort, and without the police being informed where he is going. It is certainly deplorable that the security of a great country such as France should depend upon the life of any man, instead of reposing on the sound basis of public and national institutions. But, in the present state of parties, such is the case. The Empress is in an interesting position, which promises to ameliorate this situation. The Moniteur mentions with great complacency the hospitable and distinguished reception of the French officers at the camp of Chobham. It is truly gratifying to see two nations, so long antago nistic, vieing in the rivalry of politeness and cour tesy, in the productions of their native industry, and in the honourable emulation of which country shall contribute the most to the maintenance of the peace and consequent prosperity of the world. Thu manifesto of the Emperor of Russia is considered here as by no means ex cluding the hope of a pacific arrangement of the affairs of the East. The attempts to separate France from England have signally failed ; and M. I)ronyn de l'Huys, a firm friend of British alliance, has triumphantly answered the notes of Menschikolf and Nesselrode, in a declaration, as logical and lucid as theirs were unfounded and jesuitical. On the fith July, 184 s, the Count de Nesselrode, then Minister of Foreign Affairs in Russia, addressed a " circular " to the Russian Legations in Germany. This curious document invites all public functionaries to use their legitimate influence to eradicate the false notions popularly entertained as to Russian policy, and re assure the populations among whom they may reside as to the intentions of the Government, declaring that &lona would never attack any foreign power SATURDAY, who had not commenced an attack on herself. The mission of M. D'O zeroff to Constantinople by no means indicates a pacific tendency : he is simply charged with the delivering of the identical ultimatum already presented by Prince Meuschikoff. At Smyrna and at Athens the effects of the manifesto are beginning to demonstrate themselves in a great excitation of religious fanaticism. M. Fould, it is confidently asserted, will be named Minister of Finance. The Urand Duchess Helena, married to the admiral commanding the Russian fleet, and niece of the Emperor of Russia, had deferred her intended voyage to England under existing circumstances ; but the Emperor has signified that he desires her not to delay it, as there exists no reason for so doing. Madame Kalergi, who passes for a very clever woman, employed by the Russian diplomacy, has ar rived suddenly in Paris. The discovery of another alleged conspiracy against the life of the Emperor furnished material thr slam dant gossip, and agitated the Bourse, on Wednesday.. Various and conflicting rumours were, as usual, set afloat respecting the affair, of which the only circum stance absolutely certain, but out of which a thousand reports and conjectures grew, was the arrest of several individuals on the Boulevar d des Miens, at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night. Among other things it was said that the conspirators intended m assassinate the Emperor at the Opera Comique, which reopened on that evening after a long recess, and to effect their purpose had hired a box over the Imperial box, and placed a number of accomplices in different parts of the theatre. The police, however, having got wind of the design, watched the suspected parties closely, and the whole of them were arrested, but not. without difficulty, as they made considerable resist ance. They were all found to be armed with daggers and loaded pistols. The number of persons arrested was fourteen. They were first taken to the Prefecture of Police, and, an active search being prosecuted in several suspected quarters, fresh arrests were effected next morning. The way in which the affair was dis covered was a. 4 follows :—The police agents in the neighbourhood of the Opera Comique were on the alert when the Emperor and Empress were about to arrive. Suddenly one of them observed that a man whom he had been watching dropped something, which on examination was found to be a dagger. The man was at once arrested, and admitted that he was a member of a secret society, composed of front sixty to eighty persons, who have sworn to assassinate the Emperor. Ten or twelve of his accomplices were subsequently arrested in the crowd, and all of them were found to be armed with loaded pistols and dag gers. One of them is a medical man. They were all well dressed. It is thought that a great many more will be arrested. The Government is anxious to make out that the affair is of little consequence. A decree in the Moniteur convokes the councils general for the 22nd of August. The sessions will close on the 7th of September. The Minister of Marine has announced his inten tion to patronise the regattas at the principal ports, and to found prizes, consisting of gold or silver medals, or sums of money, to be called " The Minis ter of Marine's Prize." Since 114411 petitions have frequently been sent from the localities interested, requesting some encouragement of this kind for the regattas, but hitherto without success. The Minister of War left Paris on Tuesday for the purpose of continuing his military inspection in the west of France. Count I'auin, Minister of Justice of Russia, has quitted Paris, with his family, for the waters of Ems. By a decree of the Emperor, the duty of f2f. per ton on French vessels leaving the ports of France is abolished. The fears respecting the harvest in France have been dissipated by the late improvement in the weather. The Bank of France has published the result of its operations during the first six months of the present year, which show a profit of 0,387,000 f. Among the principal items composing the profits of the establishment, discounts reckon for 1,400,000 f.; rentes held by the bank, 1,S00,000f.; advances on railway shares, $12,000f.; and on public securities, 524,000 f. The profits from different branch banks figure in the general result for 2,034,000 f., after deducting losses on two of them. Out of these profits a dividend of Of. a share has been declared for the six months. The French Government has in its turn drawn up a note, or manifesto, by way of reply to the Nessel rode note. Its tenor is described as being temperate, precise, and firm. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following is the manifesto issued by the Em peror Nicholas on the 20th ult., upon intelligence of the rejeetion of the ultimatissiwun reaching St. Petersburg : " By the grgee of Goa, We, N Vholag T., Efareng awl Autvvnit of all the linemias, Czar 4,414,4 W, itc., Sco " lama all ygople.