The Press. — London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (STAMPED) Per Annum .. Half Yearly.. Quarterly .. etc Press: .. LI 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 6 6 6 PAYABLE IX ADVANCE. Subserlbers are requested to send their orders through News Agents; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALYAZD Iv., 110, Strand, London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by remittance or a reference for payment in town. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde• pendent of the merits of the communication. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one able of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Viyc rtgg• LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. LAST NIGHT'S DEB ATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. CONVOCATION OF YORK. Lord REDESDALE moved for some papers relating to the Convocation in the province of York. He accompanied this motion by various statements, which elicited explana.ions and comments from the Bishop of It►rus and several other prelates. The motion was ultimately withdrawn. Several bills were advanced a stage. INDIA GOVERNMENT BILL. On the motion of the Earl of DERBY the house went into committee on the Government of India Bill. Clause 7, appointing the Council, underwent con• siderable discussion. Lord BROUGHTON moved that it should be rejected, wishing to get rid of the Council ; but the amendment was ultimately with drawn. On clause 11, Lord ELLENI3OII.,UGII proposed an amendment reducing the period during which the councillors were to hold office, from "during good behaviour" to five years. After some debate the amendment was put and negatived without a division. On clause 12 Lord GRANVILLE moved that no persons engaged in trades or professions should be eligible as councillors. '['his amendment was pressed to a division, but negatived by a majority of 50 to 35-15. Several other clauses were discussed and passed, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The house met at noon, and proceeded in com mittee to discuss the clauses of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act Amendment Bill. The bill went through committee before the sitting was suspended. THE LITURGY. On resuming in the evening, Colonel FORESTER, the Comptroller of the House hold, brought np her Majesty's gracious reply to the address from the Commons, praying for certain alterations in the Prayer-book. The Queen pro mised to take the subject into her careful con sideration. THE TURKISH MEDAL. In reply to Mr. B. OSBORNE, General PEEL stated that some additional medals, promised two years ago by the Turkish Go vernment for distribution among the officers and men who served in the Crimean campaign, bad not yet arrived in this country. THE ELAVE SQUADRON. Mr. Hurr, alluding to the recent debate on the slave squadron, said that, notwithstanding the large majority against his motion on that occasion, he should bring forward the subject again early next session. SALE OF POISONS. Mr. IVALPor.r. stated that, in consequence of the numerous petitions against the Sale of Poisons Bill which had just come down from the Peers, it was not intended to proceed with the measure this session. THE MILITIA. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQT'ER announced that on Monday he should ask leave to bring in a bill continuing tbo Act for the Embodiment of the THE PRESS, JULY 17, 1858 Miltia, and another bill empowering the Crown to accept the services of militia regiments out of the United Kingdom. THE JEW BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Jew Bill. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved as an amendment that the bill should be read a second time that day three months. The hon. member emphatically reprobated the inconsistent course adopted by the Legislature on this question. The compromise now offered was, he thought, discreditable to those who offered it, and he was assured would fail to satisfy those to whom it was offered. He traced the complications in which the measure when passed would involve the several estates of the realm, and the further surrender of constitutional principle to which it must inevitably lead. From this beginning the ultimate separation of Church and State appeared to be only a question of time. The question was being put without remark, when Mr. SPOONER protested against the attempt to pass in silence so important a vote. He opposed the bill both as violating the principle of preserving the Christian character a the Legislature, and as having been carried by a sudden change of conduct and deviation from consistency among a large section of influential members in either house. The measure had profoundly shaken the confidence of the country both in Parliament and the leaders of political parties. Repeated sacrifices had been offered to ex pediency until the climax was reached in abandon ing the distinctive Christianity of the British Legis lature. He apprehended that by consenting to this compromise Lord Derby's Government would lose a large amount of the support it had previously com manded in the country. Mr. BENTINCK also protested against the silent passing of a measure, which he observed bad not even been explained in an introductory speech. Mr. ADAMS objected not so much to the bill itself as to the way in which it had been carried out. The bill established, in his opinion, a most dangerous precedent, and the licence now given to the Com mons to decide for themselves a most important question by their own resolution might hereafter be pushed to very inconsistent extremities. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied to the criticisms passed upon his own conduct with reference to the question. Mr. DRUMMOND agreed that the present bill was merely art item in the series which began with the repeal of the Test Act, and would hereafter lead to further changes of which no man as yet had any idea. Believing, however, that the bill presented the least mischievous mode of settling the question, he consented to accept it for that purpose. Mr. WALPOLE briefly announced his determination to vote against the bill. He objected to the admis sion of Jews to a Christian legislature, and also to the patchwork settlement which was devised for the long-pending controversy. Lord PALMERSTON agreed that the mode of settle ment was unsatisfactory. Feeling, however, the importance of securing justice to the Jews, he accepted the bill as an instalment, feeling assured that a more complete and constitutional measure must ere long be enacted. Atter a few words in opposition to the bill from Mr. MALINS, The house divided, — For the second reading For the amendment .. Majority The bill was then read a second time, and ordered for committal on Monday. SUPPLY. The report from the Committee of Supply was brought up. On the motion for going into Committee of Ways and Means, Sir F. BARING called attention to the report from the Select Committee on Public Moneys, and pointed out many anomalies in the system under which money voted by the house for various branches of public service was paid out of the Exchequer, and dealt with in the Pay-office. Further remarks on the subject were offered by Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Wilson, Mr. A. Smith, and other members. The house then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, and passed some formal resolu tions granting a supply to her Majesty for the public service. The remaining business was disposed of, and the house adjourned. CITY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL. THE anniversary dinner cf this institution took place at the London Tavern on Wednesday last, the chair being occupied by the Earl of Shaftesbury. It ap reared from the report that the funds of this charity are by no means in a satisfactory condition. receipts for the year past are less than those of 1, year preceding ; and, although the committee hav, refrained for a time from admitting any in•patienta who are not able to pay for their board, the expen diture of the year is still somewhat in excess of income. Besides this there is a debt of more 6001., previously incurred, towards the liquidation which it has, of course, been impossible to do thing. This liability presses heavily upon the mittee, and occasions serious anxiety ; it is feared that, unless immediate succour be afforded, the hospital must be closed altogether. A forcible appeal was made by the chairman for ._ creased support. He pointed out that the deformi. ties for the relief of which this hospital was estab lished are the result and consequence of modern civilization—that these distortions of the spine contractions of the limbs are rarely to be met .._ in healthy agricultural districts, and in uncivilized countries are almost unknown—that they are -- doubtedly produced by the foul atmosphere crowded life of large towns. He appealed, th, fore, to those who derive from the dense popula of this metropolis the means of acquiring wealtl_ devote some portion of it to relieving the miseries which this system of things entails upon others. '- urged that, as it is now ascertained that disorders this kind may always, if taken in time, be greatly ameliorated, and often entirely removed, the two it stitutions which are devoted to this object are utt, insufficient to meet the wants of a population so as that of London. The hospital is confined sect, class, or nation; it offers relief to all persons afflicted with deformity who are unable to pay surgical aid. It possesses an excellent medical and in many cases has achieved cures which to border on the miraculous ; its operations are _ stricted only by want of funds. The noble chairman said he considered this state of things by no means creditable to a community which boasts so loud) its liberality and enlightenment; he could not lieve that it would be any longer suffered to cow._ Dr. Little, who was present, gave similar testimony. It is now seven years since the hospital was founded, and during that time it has received 5,573 patient in the course of the past year, with an ineomt scarcely 6001., it has afforded relief to no less a 732 persons. The chairman's appeal, we are happy to say, wa' not without its effect, and subscriptions amounting to more than 5001. were announced in the course of the evening. DEATII OF THE CITY CHAMBERLAlN.—lnformation was on Thursday morning conveyed to the Lord Mayor and other corporate officials of the City of the death of Sir J. Key, Bart., chamberlain to the cor poration, which melancholy event took place at his villa at Streatham on Thursday morning at two o'clock. Death was caused by an attack of gout, from which Sir John had been suffering for some days, although it was not till Wednesday that fears were entertained of a fatal termination. Sir John Key first entered the corporation as alderman in 1823, being elected in that year for Langbourn Ward. In 1824 be served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and attained the mayoralty in 1830. At that time the public atten tion was rivetted upon the question of Parlia mentary Reform, and Sir John being one of the leading supporters of a Reform Bill in the City was elected to the mayoralty also in 1831, contrary to the usual practice, as an expression in favour of reform upon the part of the City. In 1853 the office of city chamberlain becoming vacant by the death of Mr. Brown, Sir J. Key became a candidate for the office, throwing up his aldermanic gown to enable him to do so, and, after a contest of seven days, during which he polled (3,095, he was elected by a majority of 275 over Mr. Scott. Sir John was highly and deservedly respected by his colleagues in the corporation, and a wide circle of private friends. The office of chamberlain being, by his death, again vacant, will no doubt give rise to a new and lively contest, as the emoluments attached amount to 2,5001. per annum. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF CARDIGAN.—We have to announce the death of the Countess of Cardigan, who died at seven o'clock on Thursday morning, at her residence in South•street, Park-lane. After passing the winter in Italy, she returned from the Continent late in the spring in improved health, but about six weeks since her ladyship became indis posed, though no fatal consequences were ap• prehended. On Thursday morning, at an early hour, she was seized with very alarming symptoms, and soon afterwards expired. The deceased Was eldest daughter of the late Admiral J. R. D. Tolle mache, and was born December 8, 1797. She married first Mr. C. F. C. A. J. Johnstone, but that marriage was dissolved in 1828. On the 10th of June the same year she married the Earl of Cardigan (then Lord Brudenell). The 5 of the ee have )atienta expen. of the re than ation of do any- le corn. is even fforded, k most for in- ,eformi estab- modern ine and net with ivilized are un- sre and th ere- pul ation ealth to niseries srs. He viers of greatly two in- s utterly L NO vast ;d to no persons pay for al staff, seem are re- hairmen o means oudly of not be- ontinue. stimony. 'minded, atients ; some of sss than ay, was minting 3urse of Irmation se Lord ty of the .he cor- o at his ; at two of gout, Or some lat fears Sir John rm tin in ngbourn Sheriff led the is atten- Parlia- s of the City was itrary to avour of ,he office death of for the o enable 686