The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.

The Professional Oaths Abolition Bill was read a second
time.

After serrie dismission, in which Sir 0. C. Lewis advocated
the abolition of these useless oaths, and only wished that the
measure went further,

Mr. S. ESTCOURT hoped that the bill would be submitted to
the law officers of the Crown, lest It rbould be found to go too
far.

Mr. HENLEY further observing that he hoped tt would not
release the army from the oath of allegiance.
On the motion that the House go into committee ort the
Aggravated Assaults Bill,
Lord ENFIELD opposed the further progreo of the bill,
declaring that the law was already administered with ,sufficient
vigour. He moved, as an amendment, that the House
into committee that day three months.
Mr. HARDY supported the amendment, declaring that the
police returns showed the efficiency of the law. He cited the
figures of the return to show the number of the prosecutions
already instituted.
After some discussion,
Sir G. C. Lewis observed that these excessive punishments
only defeat their own objects by preventing prosecution.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL read letters from several police
magistrates, stating their opinion that the punishment of wife
beating by flogging is only aggravating the evil.

After some further debate the House divided, when the
amendment was carried by 174 to 57. The bill was therefore
lost. -

The Highways (South Wales) Bill was read a second time.

Mr. BLACKBURN moved the second reading of the Valuation
of Lands (Scotland) Act Amendment Bill, the object of which
was to assess the land after the net, and not the gross, rental.
The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the bill as introducing discre-
pancies into a system which now worked fairly.
On a division, the second reading was negatived by 116 to 69.
Mr. DENMAN moved the second reading of the Felony and
Misdemeanour Bill, the object of which was to allow the
counsel for the prisoner to reply after the evidence had been
given. It simply assimilated the practice of the criminal to
that of the civil law.

Mr. HARDY denied the analogy, but would not oppose the
second reading.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL approved the principle of the bill.
Sir G. C. LEWIS gave his unqualified assent to the measure.
Mr. S. ESTCOURT feared that the result would be the great
lengthening of trials, especially at the Quarter Sessions.
After some remarks from Mr. Cobbett, the bill was read a
second time.

In the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Eccle-
siastical Commission Bill,
Mr. HENLEY defended the commissioners from the charge of
extravagance and of other faults brought against them in the
previous debate, and supported the second reacting of the bill.
Mr. PEASE urged the old complaint of the injustice with
which the commission had acted towards the diocese of Dur-
ham, especially in reference to the town of Hartlepool.

Mr. G. C. BENTINCK condemned the accounts of the com-
missioners as unintelligible to ordinary people.
The debate was cut short by the House.
The Tramways (Scotland) Bill passed through committee.
The Inland Bonding Bill and the Stipendiary Magistrates
Bill were read a second time.

The Tenison Charity Bill was read a third time and passed.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEHUER obtained leave to bring
in a bill to enable the University of Oxford to make statutes
for the better regulation of professorships therein, and for
other purposes.
The House adjourned at six o'clock.

Four hundred years have elapsed since the invention
of printing, and yet books are not in circulation all over
the globe ; while the use of tobacco became universal
within 50 years after its discovery.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—In the
Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, a case of "Tolman
and Wife v. Johnstone " was heard. This was an
action against the defendant for an indecent assault
upon the female plaintiff. The defendant pleaded not
guilty. Mr. Huddlestone stated the case for the plain-
tiffs, the male plaintiff being a domestic servant in the
employment of Lady Stephenson. The defendant is the
officiating vicar of Hampton. The evidence for the
plaintiff, and part of the evidence for the defence,
having been heard, the further hearing of the case was
adjourned. The details are wholly unfit for publication.
FATHER GAVAZZI IN ITALY.—Father Gavazzi is
now in Florence. A correspondent of the Athenfflunt
says—" The room in the Palazzo Quaratesi, in which
he preaches to and prays with the people several times
in the week, is always crowded with hearers, chiefly of
the lower orders, on whom the powerful and simple elo-
quence of the preacher, rich in familiar illustrations,
and skilfully pointed with the shrewd proverbs which
the Tuscan so dearly loves, produces an immense im-
pression. A great number of the artisans who, with
their families, are constant attendants at these meetings
bring their Diodati Testaments in their pockets, for re-
ference during the discourse. The Waldense and the
Italian evangelical churches have likewise their regular
places of worship and weekday lectures, and I hear that
the sect of the Irviugites has opened a chapel here and
is making converts in no small numbers. In short the
present aspect of Italy, intellectual and moral, may be
characterised by the statement that on every hand and in
every class is springing up the lavish manifestation of an
intense life, proportioned to the numbness and sterility
of the centuries of death which went before."
FATAL POISONING BY MISTAKE.—On Monday an
inquest was held at Bacup on the body of Thomas
Francis Doran, infant son of Mr. James Doran, whole-
sale grocer, Bacup. It appeared that on the previous
Thursday Mrs. Doran sent a boy eight years of age for
some syrup of violets and oil of sweet almonds, to,give
to her infant, who was suffering from cold. He went to
the shop of Mr. Abraham Uttley, chemist and druggist,
Bacup, and asked for the mixture, the bottle also being
labelled, having contained a mixture of the same kind
before. She gave the child half a teaspoonful, and it
went to sleep, and died about three o'clock in the
morning. Mrs. Uttley, on being examined, said that the
boy asked for syrup of violets and oil of almonds, and
she told him that she had none, but she would give him
what would do as well, but he must tell his mother not
to use as much of it as usual. She told him that from
four to five drops would be sufficient. It appeared that
she had given syrup of poppies instead of syrup of violets.
TAE HONESTY OF A CAB DRIVER.—The following
circumstance, just reported to the licensing and hackney
coach committee of Manchester, is worthy of notice :
A. few days ago a gentleman engaged No. 223 coach,
at Cheetham-hill, for the purpose of conveying him to
the Branch Bank of England, in King-street, having
about £7OO in gold, which he wished to have exchanged
for notes. Not being able to make the exchange, the
gentleman placed the money under the cushion in the
carriage, and, after making some purchases in town,
was driven home. On alighting from the vehicle, he
took with him several parcels into the house, forgetful
of the money. In about an hour and a half the driver,
Frederick Tomkinson, made his appearance with the
money, quite correct, much to the gentleman's astonish-
ment and delight. Of course the gentleman did not
forget to reward such sterling honesty.
A RIFLE CORPS BURNING A NEWSPAPER. On
k
Monday evening last, a singular demonstration t
place at Brierley Hill, a small town in South
rty,a
Stafford-
shire, near Dudley. The Brierley
cheap weekly newspaper, publishedhinairrtt
itill AeoaWidriee,r
't' thought
ou
fit on Saturday last to
made,devoteas
the t
and the attendance
corps, in which the progress
commented upon. This
at drill was very unfavourably
when they met at drill on
fact roused the indignatio:nodf the members of the corps
(the 15th Staffordshire), an
the statements made ill
Monday evening
untrue,
d
subsequently resolving that the
. uninraily be committed to the flames. Each
the paper as
paper should.tor
were stuck
himself with one or more
stuck in his belt ; and drill being
man, accor.dinglY,
copies, which wer
the
piaopers were solemnly piled up in the Market-
over, d -0-nited, in the presence of a large concourse
place an
of people, and am cheers for the rifle corps and its
officers, and groans for the offending Advertinr,—.From
okr correspondene,