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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1553.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Fatmv.
In reply to questions,
Sir Citun.Es WOOO said, that the province of
" l'egn" had been annexed to our Indian empire, by
the Governor-General, in accordance with instruc-
tions from the home Government ; that it was be-
lieved the new province would pay its own expenses ;
and that no instructions had been sent out to annex
more territory.
In reply to Sir Joint SHELLEY,
Lord lons Itossmi. said he intended to postpone
his bill for the disfranchisement of the dockyards
until Thursday se'nnight.
The noble Lord, in answer to Lord Joe FINN,
explained, in reference to the civil war going on in
China, that the Government had given instructions
that a sufficient force sl 1(1 attend the scene of
action to protect British subjects, but that there
was no intention to join in the hostilities. (Hear, hear.)
THIS BUDGET.
On the motion for the second reading of the
Income-tax Bill,
Mr. DisitAma announced that although from con-
siderations of public convenience it was not the inten-
tion of his friends to resist the motion, they reserved
to themselves the right of objecting to the bill in its
future stages.
'f he bill was then read a second time.
In answer to Mr. MAOUIUE, Lord lons Itussr.tt said
that, the house having refused the vote for the re-
pair of the College of Maynmah, it was not the in-
tention of the Government to propose any further
estimate. ( Hear, hear.) The noble lord gave notice
that on Monday he should move the tuljourn-
ment of the house until the following Thursday (the
intervening days being the Queen's birthday and the
Derby day). ''(Cheers.)
The report of supply was then brought up and re-

eivetl.
The house then went into committee of supply,
when the additional civil service votes were taken.
On the vote of 4,Th4)i. to defray the expenses of the
Falkland Islands,
Sir .1. SHELLEY objected to an item of 4001. in the
vote for the salary of the chaplain of the Falkland
Islands. He moved the reduction of the vote loy the

above amount.
After some disenssi (((( the committee divided—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority
The vote WAS then agreed to.
On the vote 1t4,000/. for the consular establish

ments abroad,
Captain `courts. denounced the double salary
paid to the tiovernor of Bong-Kong, as Oovernor
and Chief Superintendent of Trade, as excessive.
'rite latter ottiee was unnecessary, and he moved
that the salary of VOW. be reduced by 1,500/.
On a division the au►end►u cut waoi negatived by a
majority of Th to 46.
The vote was then agreed to.
The other votes, and the ►xders of the day, having
been disposed of, the house &abeam ►ed.

PROFESSOR AYTI N'S I.F,CTURE ON
DRAMATIC POE'fltN .
Tine chief topic of Professor Aytiant's lecture on yesterday
was Shakspeare. Its tone was throat ;hoot more powder
than we had anticipated. The learnt% l professor evidently
WAS apprehensive that a large palmist r mutants. would not
relish much analytic dissertation ; not t perhaps he might
have made more allowance leer the ut wilier of Shaksperian
students produced by the recent edit ions. rapidly passing
over the areluvology of the Englist , drama, glancing at
Kit Marlowe for a brief time. he eon eentrated the attention
of his audience upon Shakspeare, of whom he spoke with
the revereuee of a sincere womhipti or. It is very atittieUlt
tat say anything upon a theme so often treaty(' ; lott Pro-
fessiw Mi applied his own test of " repression" to
Shakspeare, and tried hint micro by the felicitous energy
of his eloquence, then by the en alysis and invention of
character. Ile scouted the "ct .ut of etiticism." which
pn,fessem to final faults in the " art " of Slinkspeare, and
pointed to the untivalled ext •ellemere of his " female
characters," paying, as he went along, a graceful eoutpli-
ment to Mrs..la ttt i t `SOIL Atha` .ng to the West Ilithellity
men experience in fathoming th e female heart, he instanced
Sem:B " and " Lto ly Ashton" as suceessfhl
instances of female portraiture from a man's pen, inn how
immeasurably infrrior to the Shiykspetiati gallery!
"Jeannie Dealigt.. however, n tight he admitted tat stand as
antique and rerfect. 1 u might ion to Sliakspeare's excellence
in "expression," the lecturer game him the highest praise
for " losslity" or tidelity to t: tie tone and colour of the place
a11481341tY in which he east b is plots, CI itntstiwit !lambi with
ammo 11114 Juliet to illnAtral e his text. the of the most
1.1111111116114; points in the lot Aurts was the professor's reading
a in the tiret mink ti of liassia, when the Queen is
with the differing ts between her rind and second
busbasd. " Reeve" said the lecturer," we have eddy the
rotrilt ikuuQua—ilow mt .rk it polie.,hvel tee ',Kali:cavil "eee•er