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CLAYTON HALL, Clayt n-sgnare—G irdon Cumming-8 p.m. ALLSOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Cr For particulars see advertisements. TO CORRESPONDENTS. lar We have to apologise to our Sobs .ribers for the late delivery of the NORTHERN TIMES yesterday. The delay was occasioned by an accident to our Steam Engine, which took some hours to remedy. Ec haiku TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The main topic of discussion, in general and political circles, relates to the present aspect of affairs in India. Further telegraphic accounts have come to hand, but they do not contain much, if anything new, respecting the progress of the etniute. Enough, however, is known to satisfy every one that the gravity of the occurences which have already taken place cannot be over estimated. It appears that fully 30,000 native troops have either actually turned out in open revolt , or abandoned the British colours. Hopes were entertained in the latest despatches from Bombay, that the crisis was at its worst, acd that as soon as reinforcements of European troops would reach Upper India, the rebellious designs of the mutineers would be completely put down. From Delhi NN a hear that the insurgents had been attacked, and that the heights around the town were in possession of the Government forces. The mutineers were driven dispirited within the walls, with the loss of 26 guns. Let us hope that the confident tone in which ministers spoke of the matter last night, that the affair will not turn out such a serious matter as many parties have con jectured. From the Continent the news is more hopeful. We have to record a pleasing fact—namely, the granting of an amnesty by the Grand' Duke of Baden, including the political offences committed in 1848 and 1840. Though the country is small, hardly any of the amnesties recently granted will have a greater practical effect, from the extremely great number of persons whom it includes. A telegraph from Naples of the 9th announces the capture of the remnants of the insurgents. The whole kingdom was tranquil, and the flimsiness of the pretext for interference with the kingdom, which the Muratist interest in France is so eager for, is now evident. In Sat dinia the Minister of the Interior, accused of negligence respecting the plot, has declared part of the statements in the press to be exaggerations, and has denied that he had any previous reliable information of the con spiracy. The rumour was current that Mazzini 1 - Ltd effected his escape. Accounts from St. Petersburg, and other places on the eastern frontier of Europe, indicate consi derable activity in the Russian empire in clearing away the obstacles to the extension of trade, and in creating facilities for internal communication, which is, of course, a prime necessity of commerce. Great schemes are sketched out, and, it is affirmed, partly put into execution even, for connecting Eastern and Central Siberia with the Caspian to the south and the Baltic to the north, by a system of water and land communication. The Russian corps in the Caucasus are carrying on the war vigorously against the mountain tribes, and apparently with success. From Turin we learn that the Minister of the Interior has declared to the Senate that there had been seized in Genoa only 300 muskets, 20 pistols, and 240 poniards. What had been said of the plans of the insurgents which had been known be forehand, and likewise that the public establish ments had been undermined, is not true. No mine had been discovered under these establish ments, nor in the town. The squadron under the command of Admiral Lord Lyons, which is at La Sp ezzia, consists of three ships of the line, two cor vettes, and three steamers. Lord Lyons arrived at Genoa on the 10th. The proceedings in both Houses of Parliament last night were not of much moment. It will be perceived that questions were put to ministers, in both houses, and that ministers did not seem to take that gloomy view of matters as was supposed. The Lords went through a good deal of business, a perfect heap of bills having passed the second reading connected with the business of the House of Commons. We observe that the corn mi tteeappointed to investigate the petition against Mr. 0 , Flagherty, the member for Galway, have ma de a report that he was un d u ly e l ec t e d, an d also p res ented a special report on the subject of the last election in the City of the Tribes. The several Election Committees continue their sittings daily. Yesterday the investigation of the Mayo petition was concluded by Mr. O'M a ll e y reply ing to the evidence produced in de fence of the sit t i ng member. In the course of his speech F a th ers Ryan, Conway, and others, came in for a pretty large -share of stinging comments as well as the encourage ment which had been given to their violent proceed ings by their ecclesiastical superior, Archbishop Mac Hale. The petition against Mr. Roupell, one of the sitting members for that aristocratic con stituency, Lambeth, is still prosecuted with much energy. The scenes which these election com- . m ittees are dragging to li g ht are a sufficient proof that no matter how stringent w e ma ke our laws, purity of election cannot be expected unless we adopt the ballot. Prince Frederick of Prussia was lionising at the Guildhall of London yesterday, on the occasion of his being presented with the freedom of the city. No doubt the compliment was paid merely to please the Queen and gratify her intended son-in law. Certainly there is no public act of his life that we are aware of which warrants the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London dipping their hands into the treasury of the citizens of the metropolis, and expending, in a useless gew-gaw " some £5OO. We have given a pretty copious report of the proceedings on the occasion. There is not much interest in the general news this morning. Yesterday a coroner's jury was engaged in investigating the death of Richard Empson, aged 70, an official connected with the St. Martin's Workhouse, when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against a young man an inmate of the workhouse, who, without any provo cation, inflicted a series of wounds on the deceased, which caused almost instantaneous death. From the evidence produced at the inquest, be must have been labouring under temporary insanity. The late catastrophe on the South Kent Railway still engages the consideration of a coroner's jury. Our police reports this morning possess features of interest which will repay an attentive perusal. A meeting of the members of the Army and Navy Club has been called for the 27th instant, to take into consideration a communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the institution. It appears, says the United Service Gazette, that his Boyal Highness has become aware that gambling has been for some time carried on at the Club to a fearful extent. The Master of the Rolls in Ireland has refused to make an order to wind up this com pany's affairs on the ground that the petition for that purpose was presented by a person under no obligation to pay his debts, and also on the ground that the only substantial debt was one in which there was only an interlocutory judgment. CONTRARY to what many politicians expected, the new House of Commons is not as subservient to the will of Lord PALMERSTON and his more distinguished colleagues as was anticipated it would be at the termination of the ,General Election. During the last ten days there have been several Ministerial defeats. Now, the fact of Government being left in a minority on any question of importance, is an evidence of the independent character of the House, and clearly shows that, although the new members are not much inclined to indulge in prosaic debates, they have the power of catching an argument, and retaining it until they have detected, by mental analysis, whether it i 6 pure or fallacious. The first session of the new Parliament has not been of long duration ; still, sufficient has passed to convince the Premier and his Attorney-General that the House has made up its mind to resist the bidding of the Government, and that unless there is a semblance of reason and justice in the motion, the Treasury Whip will have little effect upon members when the division bell rings. There was an apt illustration of these remarks in the House of Commons on Friday. On that evening, the consideration of the Wills Bill, in committee, was among the orders of the day, and Ministers sustained no less than two defeats upon some of the more important provisions of the measure, and would have been beaten a third time had they not had the prudence to offer to the opponents of the bill, as it there stood, a compromise. That compromise was the abandonment of the principle which the Attorney-General, as the mouthpiece of the Administration, stated was vital to the success of the bill. But let us glance at the object of the measure, and the tenour of the opposition which it encountered. We do not dispute that the present law of wills is far from being satisfactory. Nevertheless, there is not much difficulty in proving their validity, in consequence of the several district courts which are in existence throughout the country for that purpose. Whilst the new law proposed to render such proof not only easier but less expensive, it has recourse to the abominable principle of centralisation and Governmental control—a system, by the way, which shows that the longer it is tried the more objectionable it becomes. Knowing that the adoption of this principle of " centralisation" would be a great grievance on the country at large, the Government were induced to relax a little of their primary intentions, and agreed that all wills, where the amount of annual property was below 1,5001. a-year, might continue to be administered in the district courts already in existence. This, how ever, was a point which the House was not in the flood to concede. The proposed modification of SIR RICHARD BETHEL was unsatisfactory, and honourable members insisted, and successfully, that the district courts should be empowered to deal with all sorts of wills that bequeathed personal property, without any limit to the amount. After an attempt to coax and wheedle the House, a vote on the amendment was carried, leaving Government in a minority of thirty. This result induced the Attorney- General to change his tactics ; and, quite Palmerstonian-like, he threatened that, if that vote was not rescinded—in fact, if the House did not at once repudiate its own deliberate act and vote, he would throw up the Bill. It was of no avail. The first law officer of the Crown was obliged to behold a firmness and independence of spirit on the part of the House, and observe that all his threats, bullying, and uncalled-for bluster were heeded as the idle wind, and treated with supreme contempt and scorn. These scenes—ministerial disasters would be a more apt and significant term to use—took place on Thursday. On Friday, the adjourned discussion was resumed. From what had tran spired on the previous evening, expectation was on the tiptoe to learn how the Government would act. Hence, there was a crowded house on both sides, eager to learn what decision the Government had 'come to. The Attorney- General, in a very quiet and bland manner, by way of disarming opposition to his pet project, regrets the " misunderstanding" of the previous evening ; and by way of satisfying the opponents of his scheme of centralisation, proposes that the district Courts should take cognizance of wills when the personal property was 3,0001. Indeed, to avoid further dispute, he would not stand in the way of another thousand or so. At the same time, he must have a limit beyond which the will should be reserved for the adjudi cation of the Metropolitan Court. Moreover, he insisted that the District Courts should not deal with money in the Funds and railway shares. Notwithstanding the mild and gracious spirit in which he spoke his desire to make a compromise, he was met by a stern refusal of his proposal from the Oppositionists ; and, as on Thursday, they again settled that the clause should not contain the limits he proposed. In no measure of any consequence have we known the first law officer of the Crown to be so severely handled as on Thursday and Friday. Besides that, the Lords, on the latter evening, threw out the Jew Bill—a measure which Lord PALMERSTON tried to modify so as to insure its acceptance with the Peers. It is not our desire to rejoice at a series of ministerial defeats in the present juncture. At the same time, we confess, that as regards the Wills Bill, we are glad to know that the House of Commons has been firm, and scouted such an extension of the principles of centralisation as that measure contains. Nothing could justify the practice of compelling the people of Liver • pool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, &c., &c., going up to London to prove their wills, when the task: can be accomplished equally. as well, with much less loss of time, and infinitely less expense in the district courts. Altogether, the contest between the House and the Government was important in a social point of view, and the development of the principle by which that contest was sustained, must ultimately do much to promote all questions of political progress. THE " Oaths Bill'' has been rejected by the House of Lords, and Baron ROTHSCHILD is once more denied the privilege of taking his seat in tho House of Commons, although elected a member by the first constituency in the Empire. Lord DERBY led the opposition, and, as usual, dis played the narrow-minded bigotry, which is his wont on this great question, of civil and religious liberty. There was little, if anything at all, new in the debate. The most remarkable feature in it was, that it elicited the opinions of several Peers who carefully abstain from plunging into politi cal warfare ; for we find among the names of the speakers those of Lords ST. VINCENT and DE `reset. In moving the second reading of the bill, Earl GRANVILLE delivered a graceful oration, the matter of which was a repetition of the argu ments and facts so frequently laid before the other house by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in his numerous attempts at Jewish Emancipation. He pointed out the absurdity of countenancing a law to act in one direction which was devised to ope rate in anothpr, and of oroatin g a. cii.3ablcd and excluded class merely by a legal accident or over sight ; the objectionable and unforeseen effects of which, the authors of the undesirable enact ment would have been the first to deplore. Lord DERBY met this with the old song of alarm, set to the old tune, and kept harping upon certain provisions connected with the Act of 1627, which he argued was a Protestant statute framed for the express purpose of guarding and protecting the interests of Christianity. It might have struck Lord DERBY that Christianity is neither promoted or strengthened by fanaticism or persecution ; on the contrary, these annual displays of litiguous theology, the factions of a great faith, and the deplorable tremblings of superanuated legisla tures at the prospect of an innovation which has been delayed too long, and may be granted too late, have confirmed the masses in their jealousy of an heriditary peerage ; and, although there are occasions when their lordships, by the cool and deliberate manner in which they conduct their debates and decide for the advantage of the country, their general line of policy on all ques tions affecting their own order, or aiming at the extension of Civil and Religious Liberty has been at variance with the expressed opinions and wishes of the country. It was in a spirit akin to these remarks that Lord LYNDHURST told the House that it did not represent the nation—and why ? Because when the nation has condemned an abuse th.e Peers band together for its con tinuance and protection. When the sure shadow of prejudice has departed from the light of public opinion it takes up its quarters in the House of Lords, and bellows forth bigoted fallaciesfrom the mouths of earls and right reverend prelates. When one branch of the legislature aids the pro gress of Civil and Religious Liberty, the other opposes it, and the Tory chief is heard uttering the most transparent sophisms and the veriest rigmarole that has ever been employed to forward the cause of illiterate bigotry. Lord DERBY thought he had made a capital hit, when, waxing eloquent with his subject, he inquired , If Jews " were to be admitted to Parliament, what was " to prevent them from holding the highest offices " in the State ?" The question betrayed his igno rance of the provisions of the Bill he was so strongly denouncing, inasmuch as one of the clauses of the Act distinctly stipulates that such offices shall not be held by Jews. And here, we must say, that we consider Lord PALMERSTON was by no means as firm in this particular point as he might have been, considering the commanding majority with which he carried his bill through the House of Commons. If the Jews are fit to be lawmakers they are also fitted to be lawgivers, and to hold the highest office which the crown can bestow. The restrictive clause takes away, in a great measure, the wholesome and salutary THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JULY 14. 1857. principle of the Bill. But to return to Lor LYNDHURST he spoke as he is even wont to do an example and an ornament to the order to which he belongs. He did not stoop to the shallow artifices adopted by the Earl of DERBY, or the hypocritical cant of Vis count DUNGANNON, nor could the Bishop of OXFORD manfully, as he controverted the sensible and well-defined positions put forward by the Bishop of LONDON in support of the measure, gainsay the conclusion that this per petual assumption of the peers to control, and assume an exclusive regard for the Protestant faith, must be distasteful to the people; or that the Commons are quite as competent and capa ble of determining any question connected with the constitution of the House. It is quite evident that, sooner or later, this intolerance of the Peers must be broken down, and the efforts of a conferated band of blind religionists, prevented from imposing a veto upon well considered and essential reforms. There is, also, another fallacy connected with the opponents of the emancipation of the Jews. They argue as if the exclusion of Baron ROTHS CHILD and his co-religionists maintained and secured a purely Christian Parliament. This is not so ; Jews only are excluded. It admits the Deist and the Atheist—men who scoff at every form of Christianity, and deny the very existence of a God—whilst the door is shut upon a race of people remarkable for their industry, their reli gious zeal, patience, and long suffering. There is no hinderance to the Latitudinarian walking into the House, presenting himself at the table, taking an oath, and becoming de facto a member. An Irvingite finds no di fficulty in taking his seat, and the Disciples of the New Jerusalem sect are represented there, yea, more; the very class which the obso. lete statutes seek to exclude, finds its representa tives among the present House of Commons. The Jew, alone, offers himself at Mr. speaker's table, and with his condentials of election in hand desires to go through the necessary preliminaries but he is met at a certain point of this introduc tory ceremony, by an insuperable barrier, and is compelled to retire ; and his constituents lose his services as their representative. Mark, he plights his troth to be loyal to the sovereign, and to support the constitution of the Country , both as regards Church and State. He calls upon God in the form that is most binding upon his conscience; but he objects to adopt a set of words in his solemn asseveration, which is anta gonistic to his religious belief, and then the blind intolerance of religious bigots steps in, and denies him the right of further entrance. Supposing the arguments of such antagonists to the political freedom of the Jews be correct, every one of them in both Houses—Lords and Commons--should, on the same principle, vote for an immediate repeal of the emancipation Act. If the introduction of Jews to Parliament would be dangerous to Christianity, so also must the admission of Roman Catholics be most detrimen tal to the Protestant faith—the best form of Christianity. Has this been so ? We say not. The millions of England are not less Protestant in principles than in 1829. The doctrines of LAT!. MER and RIDLEY and CRANMER, are not less respected and firmly believed than they were before O'CONNELL took his seat for Clare. Scot land too still adheres to the doctrines of her beloved KNOX, and reveres her standard authority in spiritual matters, the Westminster Confession of Faith. Aye, and Ireland is as protestant in heart and spirit as she was before Catholic eman cipation. Protestant Churches and Presbyterian Chapels and Schools have spring up, even in the Romish region of Connaught. The Relief act of 1829, has not been able to arrest the spread of Protestantism. If then the admission of Roman Catholics into Parliament has not injured or weakened the Protestant faith, the mere intro duction of a few Jews could by no means disturb much less sap the foundations of Christianity itself. In fact, past experience proves quite the contrary. Their have been Jewish Lord Mayors, and Jewish churchwardens. Their official career has shown that they did not endanger the existence of Christianity. Quite the opposite. Their conduct has been such as is worthy the imitation of the most pious class of professing Ch ristians. While we regret the division of Friday night, and the defeat of the Bill to which our remarks refer, there are circumstances which afford some gratification. Lord SHAFTESBURY, the leader of the Exeter Hall Protestant forays, and the Duke of NORFOLK, the Premier Peer of England, and a Roman Catholic to boot, consented to the second reading. It is true that they sought for some modifications in committee. They both however, admitted the principle of the Bill, and the justice on which it was founded. The Bishop of LONDON pleaded and cast his vote into the scale for religious toleration, so that every thing considered, the House took a higher tone on the subject than in former years, and re deemed itself at least, from the charge of dealing with a great public question, upon mere techni calities and black letter quotations. Now that the bill has been thrown out, two questions suggest themselves ;—namely, will Baron ROTHS CHILD resign ? and what will Lord PALMER STON do ? Will he resent the obstinacy of the upper House, and appeal against the decision of an incourageable majority ? The leading Journal seems to think that the final settle ment of the Jewish disabilities, is left to the first session of Lord DERBY'S second administration, whenever that may come ; a hint taut the present Government will have nothing further to do with the matter. THE DEATH OF GENERAL ANSON. The mournful information was considerately broken to the Hon. Mrs. Anson on Saturday afternoon, before the sad news became generally known. Mrs. Anson, who has returned only a few weeks from India, was deeply affected on receipt of the information. The gallant General was second son of Thomas, first Viscount Anson, and conse quently brother of the Earl of Lichfield. He was born the 13th October, 1797, and at an early age entered the army in the 3rd or Scots' Fusilier Guards, with which regiment he served at the battle of Waterloo. He continued in the Guards until he obtained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in May, 1825, when ho was placed on half pay. The lamented General was for many years a member of the House Of Commons, being returned to that assembly in 1818, for Great Yarmouth, which he represented in several succes sive Parliaments to 1835. In February, 1836, he was elected for Stoke-upon-Trent, and sat for the southern division of Staffordshire, from 1337 to 1853, when in August that year he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on being appointed to his command in India. General Anson served the office of principal storekeeper of the Ordnance under Viscount Melbourne's Administration, and was clerk of the Ordnance from July, 1846, to February, 1852. He was a liberal in politics, and invariably sided with the leaders of the Whig party. General Anson married, in November, 1830, the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Annabelle Forester, third daughter to the late and sister to the pre sent Lord Forester. On his assuming his important command in India, in 1855. he reeeivei the local rank of General. On the death of Lisut -General the Hon Henry E Butler, in December, last year, Gen. Anson succeeded to the Colonelcy of the 55th Foot, which becomes vacant by his demise. His commissions bore date as follows : Ensign and Second Lientenant, Bth January, 1814 ; Captain, 20th January, 1820; Major, Ist April, 1824 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 19th May, 1825 ; Colonel, 28th June, 1838; and Major-General, 11th November, 1851. The late General was a zealous and liberal patron of the turf, and was, perhaps, better known as Colonel Anson. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA. Yesterday afternoon, according to arrangement, the Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the affianced husband of the Princess Royal of England, arrived at the Guildhall, at one o'clock, for the purpose of having conferred upon him the freedom of the City of London, according to the expressed wish of the Court of Common Council, intimated to his Royal Highness a fortnight since. Mr. Bunning (the City architect) had fitted up the Guildhall to represent a chamber for the assembling of the Court of Common Council and decorated it to do honour to the Prince of Prussia. Flags of all nations were suspended from the large cornices. In the centre of the eastern window was a bold medallion of her Majesty decorated with golden lions, wreaths, and flags, beneath which, and at the sides of the gallery for the ladies, were suspended heraldic shields of the several nations. In the centre of the western window was a trophy composed of flags. The several compartments on each side of the hall were also decorated with trophies of flags and wreaths. Immediately beneath the ladies' gallery at the east end, and in:the centre of the hall, the chair from the Court of Aldermen was placed for the Lord Mayor, on the right of which was a chair of state, composed of gold and crimson velvet, for the Prince of Prussia ; and on the left was placed a chair for his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, and on either side seats for the aldermen. In . the front were arranged seats for the distinguished guests. On the north and south sides of the hall were stages in radiating lines in three heights for the gentlemen of the Common Council, behind which seats were provided for ladies. In the centre of the platform were placed a table and seats for the officers, on a lower level than the floor, so as in no way to impede the sight of the very numerous company. At the south entrance of the Great Hall was ...vended a large curtain. On gothic pedestals on each:side of the opposite door on the north of the hail, were fixed two golden figures of plenty. The lobbies and passages throughout were decorated with flags, and the beaatiful bust of her Majesty, by Durham, in the:CommonlCouncil Chamber was also decorated. Vast numbers of people assembled in the neighbourhood of the Guildhall at an eariy hour, and by half-past twelve o'clock every seat, except those appropriated to the principal guests, was occupied. Among the most distinguished'persons were his Royal Highness the Duke,of Cambridge, the French Ambassador Earl of Harrowby, the Marquis of, Bre adalbane, Ear Clarendon, the Prussian Minister and Countess Bernstorff, the Turkish Ambassador, Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait, Sir George and Lady Grey, the Belgian Minister, the American minister, the Greek Minister, &c. . His royal highness having taken his seat upon a chair of state on the right of the Lord Mayor (the Duke of Cambridge being on his left), the court was formally opened, :and the resolution of the court in favour of presenting the freedom of the City to Prince Frederick William of Prussia having been read: Sir John Key, city chamberlain, addressed his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William, dilating, at the Com mencement of his speech, upon the prestige attending the freedom of the City, and then proceeded personally to apply his remarks. The corporation could not forget (he said) that the guest whom their Queen had delighted to honour came of the time-honoured house of Brandenburg —was descended of a distinguished line of princes, beginn ing with one on whom con! emporaneous history bestowed the title of " Great," and brought down to the time of one who had everything of greatness but the name ; for there were qualities in the relative of his Royal Highness which placed him higher in the rank of potentates than any of his predecessors, entitled him to the love of his subjects, and the moral esteem of mankind. But there were other considerations and reasons for bestowing upon his Royal Highness a municipal token of respect—reasons of a loftier, closer, and more sacred kind. His Royal Highness was about to contract a relation with this country, to make " one of us." He was on the point of being entrusted by the people with one of their most cherished and deeply-prized possessions —to have be stowed upon him the band of England's daughter—the first-born of England's Queen, whose interests and happl - were bound up with the nation's, as were those of the nation bound up with her's. Loyalty with them was no mere sentiment ; it was a principle—a nationality as much a part of the British character as the fidelity which never forsakes a friend, or the courage which never feared a foe. And if upon this aboriginal and instinctive loyalty his Royal Highness supposed to be engrafted all that affection which was inspired towards a beloved Queen, by an unsurpassed combination of per sonal qualities, by wisdom, by moderation, by a heart that feels for the meanest of her subjects, he could well well understand with what feelings of emotion the people contemplated their separation from au illustrious Princess, and the earnestness of their prayers that she might find in the country of her adoption the virtues of an English court, and the comforts of an English home. With respect to his Royal Highness personally, his, qualities commanded the admiration and esteem of his court trymen, who were as incredulous of there being a princess worthy to be honoured with his affection, as were we of any Prince being found worthy of the daughter of our unrivalled Queen. Sir J. Key concluded thus :—" In this reciprocal persuasion of the two nations, therefore, that each is offering of its b es t t o cement ancient ties, to strengthen the bulwarks 01 the Protestant faith, to hasten the reign of a world-wide brotherhood and peace —our country bids you God-speed,' and this Court tend s to you the expression of its homage. Whether sir, in the providential orderings of Him 'by whom kings reign and Princes decree justice,' it may ever be yours to ascend the throne of your ancestors, we know not. :But should such be His will, I feel that, in the name of this court and of our common country, I can ex -1 press for you no higher or better Wish than that, as much as ever monarch does you may enjoy the affections - your subjects, and have history to testify of you, "AI you die, that you as muc h d eserve d them." ( Lou d applause.) Sir J. Key then handed to his Royal Highness the freedom of the City, emblazoned on vellum, and enclose(' in a gold box (value 100 guineas), which His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William graciounli accepting, replied as follows :—" I thank you very kincerell for the very kind sentiments which you have uttere d towards my sovereign, my country, and myself. Tbo t feeling will be appreciated, I feel certain, by them no lest than by myself. It has given me the greatest satisfactio n to receive from the hands of the municipal authoritie s of this ancient city an honour which I must ever high l l p rize, and I acknowledge, in the distinction so coo' ferred upon me, an additional token of the kindly feeling evinced towards me by the British people. I trust that the confidence which they are willing to repose in me wil l not be unmerited ; and that the future happiness of th e' princess, my affianced bride, may prove equal to my entlea' veers to secure it, and to the devoted and hearty attach' meat, which I bear to the Queen your sovereign, .AlloW me once more to thank you with all my heart for the cordiality of your welcome, and to assure you of rof fervent wish for the welfare and prosperity of the efty of London." (Loud applause.) The address and reply of his royal highness were 6° ll ordered to be inserted in the minutes of the court, and Ili° royal highness, accompanied by the Lord Mayor, the MO of Cambridge, and the other illustrious visitors, then pro' ceeded to the Mansion-house, escorte d b y a guar d 03 honour of tne Honourable Artillery Company, where splendid dej caner awaited them. CURIOUS SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS• The rules of their lordships respecting proxies led to $ curious scene on the division on the Jew Bill. The ro l s is, that whey proxies are being taken no peer is to leafs his seat, but as the proxies are called seriatim by the ole4 at the table from the book in which they are entered, the peer to whom the proxy is given rises uncovered, and sao content or non-3ontent. Usually, instead of rising, th e peer simply takes off his hat. O n F r id ay night, one o t the peers gave his proxy vote while apparently standing below the bar. The vote was instantly objected to, on th e ground that the peer in question was nut technically in al e house. Hereupon a discussion arose, which had 1118 drollest possible effect upon the spectators, inasmuch a s i the peers were supposed to be glued to their seats, a l motion being contrary to the rules of the house. They a l/ spoke sitting, some with thier hats on, half a dozen at.s time, and each to make himself heard had to raise 10 voice to a pitch most unusual in that solemn assembir Lord Campbell commenced questioning the delinquen t peer, " 'Where were you—were you in the house ?" all ' this sitting and across the fluor, and we know not W I many peers speaking at the same time. On this the voic e of the Duke of Baccleugh is heard thundering acres the house, protesting against one peer being called in question by another peer. Some one quoted the House of Co nt. mons. Lord Westmeath thunders out, protesting agai nst being governed by the precedents of the House of 0 0111- mons. Their lordships must stand on their own bottolo. Lord Granville quietly remarked that they should e t least be governed by common sense. Lord Clanricarde' to settle the question, tries to get at a book ; but as 10 like the rest, is supposed to be glued to his seat, he ha" to make a furious rush to the table and back again for the purpose. Lord Campbell again commences questioning" Lord Redesdale expounding the law—Lord Salisbury n - f , plaining where the peer was, ,and the peer hitu sel laughing and explaining nothing—all in th e same auto cratic fashion, as if they were afraid th a t eve n their lip s. should be seen to move. This droll spectacle ended by the vote being admitted. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY FOR THE Waif- The great event of the last week in connection with the proceedings in Parliament has been the renewed failure of the attempt to remove the last rag of religious disabilitr e i which press upon the Jews. The fact of the majority the Commons being so much larger than on any previntl i , occasion would, it was hoped, have h a d some influence In inducing the House of Lords to reconsider the resultAt which they had arrived. Such, however, was not the case, and the bill was lost by a majority of 34, being a l : less than on the last occasion when the bill was rejecte d. The majority of peers present who were opposed to lb°, bill was 109 to 91, and of proxies 64 to 48, being a,t° ° of 139 for, and 174 against th e measure. Th e speaker". in the debate in 'the bill—called the Parliamentary Oat° B,ll—were Earl Granville, who moved the second reading' the Earl of Derby, who moved the amendment that it li r read a second time that day th ree mont h s. Lor d Lyn!: hurst, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Norfolk, V. Camoys, Lord de Vesci, Lord Dufferin, the BishoP London, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Shaftesborss Lord Brougham, and the Duke of Argyle spoke in favou r of the bill ; and the Earl of Winchelsea, Viscount Mill gannon, Earl St. Vincent, the Archbishop of Canterball' the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Galloway against it. In the House of Commons the bill introduced kr i lie f Government for the establishment of a. new Court Probate was passed through committee, two amendments having been introduced, against the wish of tho Govern' went, by a majority in one case of 31,, and in another 1 2. An attempt made by Mr. Roebuck to induce the house to consent to the abolition of the office of 1 ,01. a 6 Lieutenant of Irelaryl, was defeated by. Ay majority of 26 f . to 115. The other business of the two, houses was not a nature to call for special notice. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. The receipts from the Handal. Festival at Sydenhaa3 , .. understood to have left, by way of c l ear pro fi t, a f ter all t; vast expenses of the undertaking have b een pa id, a su b of betwixt seven and eight thousand pounds. to By the retirement of Mdlle. Rachel from the The- t he Frangais, at Paris, a salary, of £1,680 per annum le saved to the management. The sala r y h as beer. paid I.° the last three years. Continental journals: announce tint the second ke l t dramatic company is about to cross th e Alp s , headed 0 Mdlle. Sadowski, who has been a l r eady m entioned dividing the succass at Naples, duri ng t h e w i n t er an d spri rjv season, with Madame Ristori. The French Academy, on the proposition of M. En1P ill :: director of the Theatre Frangsis, has resolved to gl/ e , prize of .ElOO for the best comedy in five ac t s , a nd 1 ? verse, which may be represented at Paris in the course the next three years. 0 Ira Aldridge, the coloured actor, is at p resent p l a yiog, fall houses, and an enthusiastic audience, at Stockho llt i HiR most scecesaful characters are those of Shylock 6° Othello. DEATH OF LADY CRARLEY/LLE.--The Countess I "' Charleville died of scarlatina, at Cork, on WednesdaY• DEATH OF GENERAL EGERTON.—The death o f Gen e- Sir Charles Bolkeley Egaton took place on Wedn esd o t at his town - residence, i n hi s 83rd year. He had been to some sixty-five y ears i n t h e army, an d srw some a cti .de service in the ear l y par t o f hi s m ili tary career . H e bec a ; l a general in 1816, having had (in 1837) the Coloos;'. of the 89,h R eg i ment prev i ous l y con f erre d upo n 1 11 The appointment is now rendered vacant by his death. elf ° THE ORANGEMEN —Yesterday, the various Orange'ere clubs had their gala day. They met at Wavertree, they had their usuil processions about that tov ll oo About 4,000 assembled, and all passed cff quietly. P i og evening, the road from Wavertree to Liverpool of thronged with drunkards, both male and female, 01 5 0 whom had the " Orange Lodge" emblem on their bre 00 Upon inquiry at Wm ertree, we understood that `` j g ee had been locked-up." The various members of the le d dined at their respective club houses in the evening, el the some instances there was a bAli, in which a portioll 9 fair sea toPtAr 4 part.