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FRIDAY.

Lew REPORM.—Lord LYNDHURST passed in review the
Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill and other measures of legal
reform which had been successively introduced and abandoned
by the Government during the present session, and called on
the Lord Chancellor to explain this most unsatisfactory state
of things.—The LORD CHANCELLOR attributed the abandon-
ment of the various measures enumerated to the engrossing
interest of the war, the debates on which had absorbed the
time usually devoted to matters of public importance.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT AMENDMENT BILL.—Lord
STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the second reading of this bill.
Lord COLCHESTER gave notice of his intention to move a
clause in committee giving protection to seamen against being
sent to sea in unseaworthy vessels.—The Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH thought some such clause as that to which his noble
friend (Lord Colchester) referred was exceedingly desirable.
It was proposed by the bill that the East India Company
should be required to send home natives of India, being sea-
men, found destitute in England. That was a very proper
regulation, and, so far as he recollected, it used to be acted on
in former times; but then the Government of India took the
precaution of requiring masters of ships to secure them against
the expense.—The bill was then read a second time.
The Bills of Lading (No. 2) Bill was read a second time.—
The report of amendments on the Religious Worship Bill was
received on the motion of the Earl of Shaftesbury.—The Bills
of Exchange and Promissory Notes Bill was read a third time
and passed.—Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's Annuities Bill
was read a third time and passed.—The Crime and
Outrage (Ireland) Continuance Bill passed through committee.
—The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill and the West Indies
Relief Loans Arrangement Bill were read a second time.
Their Lordships adjourned at eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at noon. The Crown Suits
Bill passed through committee.
PUBLIC HEALTH BlLL.—This bill went through committee
pro forma, in order that it might be printed and circulated,
but Sir B. Hall stated that it was not the intention of the
government to procceed with the bill this session. The house
went into committee on the Metropolitan Buildings Bill, and
the several clauses were agreed to.
THE CASE OF BARON ROTHSCTILLD.-MF. WALPOLE
brought up the report of the committee on the London Writ,
which, after stating the point referred to their consideration,
proceeded to declare that, in the opinion of the committee,
there was no contract or agreement between Messrs. Rothschild
and Co., or Baron L. Rothschild and Her Majesty's govern.
ment, within the true intent and meaning of the act.
MANAGEMENT OF THE WAR.-31F. ROEBUCK moved the
following resolution :—" That this house, deeply lamenting
the sufferings of our army during the winter campaign in the
Crimea, and coinciding with the resolution of their committee,
that the conduct of the administration was the first and chief
cause of the calamities which befell that army, (lo hereby visit
with severe reprehension every member of that cabinet whose
counsels led to such disastrous results." *He began by calling
to the recollection of the house the circumstances under

I which the Sebastopol Committee was appointed, whose
report had induced him, he said, to propose this resolution.
He divided the cabinet of Lord Aberdeen into three portions
—first, Lord Aberdeen himself : secondly, the important mem-
bers of that cabinet, Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Sir
J. Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. S. Herbert. The rest he
•considered a mere herd, following, like sheep, their leaders'
track. That the latter were insignificant he admitted, but
their insignificance was no plea against the condemnation of
the house. He then reviewed the resolutions of the com-
mittee, which, he contended, were supported.by every word of
the evidence. The invasion of the Crimea had been under-
taken by the late Administration, he said, with an inadequate
force, and without a reserve, although they knew that it was
occupied by 70,000 men. When the army was dwindling
away with cold, hunger, and disease, unprovided with medical
stores, the Ministers, with the exception of the Duke of New-
castle, were not at their posts, but were taking their pleasure,
from the end of August to October, and he called upon the
House to visit with its censure men who so far forgot their
duty. The Duke of Newcastle had, however, been made the
scapegoat, but that he should he sacrificed to the manes of the
army was an injustice of which the House should not be guilty.
All he desired was justice—that the House should not allow
a body of our countrymen to go abroad to fight our battles,
and visit with no disapprobation those whose errors had con-
signed them to an untimely death.—General PEEL moved, by
way of amendment, the previous question.—This amendment
was seconded by Lord R. CECIL, who thought that a retro-
spective motion like that of Mr. Roebuck was much to be la-
mented.—Colonel ADAIR, who had given notice of an amend-
ment (which it was not competent in point of form to make,)
expressing an opinion that the counsels which determined the
expedition were consistent with a wise and sagacious policy,just
to our allies, and commensurate with the objects of the war, ex-
plained the motives which had induced him to take that step,
and justified the opinion conveyed in his amendment.—
A lengthened discussion ensued, in the course of which,—The
Marquis of GRANBY said, although he had believed the war
to be neither just nor necessary, yet, as we had engaged in it,
he should not vote for the motion, lest he should weaken the
executive, and diminish the power of the country to carry on
the war with vigour.—Sir J. Gnene m said he had waited till
the last moment, in the expectation that some member of the
government would indicate the course they wished the house
to pursue. Considering the state of the public business, he
thought it would be for the public good if the debate closed
that night. He could not think, after the committee had
been appointed, and so much expectation had been excited,
it was possible to give the question the go-by, although
he had resisted the appointment of the committee,
foreseeing dangers which the inquiry, avowedly an imperfect
one, had confirmed ; and, believing that the motion and speech
of General Peel would give rise to a misunderstanding out of
doors, he should resist the previous question, hoping that
the house, having all the materials before it, would pronounce
a decision, aye or no, whether the members of Lord Aberdeen's
administration deserved its reprehension.—Sir J. PAKINGTON
said, like Sir J. Graham, he had waited for some intimation
from the government of the course they meant to take. Did
they intend to evade a vote upon the motion by sheltering
themselves under the equivocal course of the previous ques-
tion P He had come to the decision, though with reluctance
and pain, to support the original motion. The report of the
committee, so far as it conveyed a censure upon the
government, was, he said, unanimous ; Mr. Roebuck had
therefore rightly called upon the house to express
an opinion upon the finding of the committee.—
Sir C. WOOD said the Government were prepared to vote for
the amendment of General PEEL, on the ground that the in-
quiry of the committee was imperfect. Had it been perfect—
had all been disclosed that should have been disclosed—the
Government would not have shrunk from a decision of the
house upon the main question. The debate was adjourned
until Thursday.
Mr. WILSON obtained leave to bring in a bill to give effect
to a convention between Her Majesty and the United States
of America.
On the motion of Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, a return was
ordered of the quantity of foreign hops imported into the
United Kingdom, and the amount of duty paid, for the years
ending the 30th day of June, 1853, 1854, and 1855.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—On the order for resuming the
adjourned debate upon Maynooth College, Mr. FAGAN moved
that it be again adjourned, and, after some conversation, the
motion was carried, upon a division, by 97 to 88.—Mr. KIRK
then moved that the debate be adjourned for three months,
and, upon a division, this motion was also carried by 93 to 90;
so this question is disposed of for the session.
The amendments to the Downing-street Public Offices Ex-
tension Bill were agreed to.—The Lunatic Asylums and Re-
gulation Acts Amendment Bill was read a third time and
passed.—The Sale of Spirits (Ireland) Bill was read a third
time. On the question that the bill do pass, Mr. MACART-
NEY moved the adjourment of the debate, which was nega-
tived by 63 to 27. The bill, after undergoing several verbal
amendments, was then passed.
The Treasurers of Counties (Ireland) Bill was read a third
time and passed.—The Trinity College (Dublin) Bill passed
through committee.—The house adjourned at twenty minutes
past one o'clock.