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London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

GAOLS AND HOUSES OF

Mr. BOWYER obtained leave to bring in a bill to
amend the Act 4 Geo. IV., cap. 64, for consolidating
and amending the laws relating to the building, re-
pairing, and regulating of certain gauls and houses
of correction in England and Wales.
Mr. H. HERBERT obtained leave to introduce
certain bills.

The house adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS—TuEsDir.

A bill for reforming the Law of Debtor and Creditor
was introduced by Lord Sr. LEoNARns, and read a
first time, afwr a brief conversation, in which Lord
Campbell, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Wensleydale participated.
The Trustees Relief 13111 and the Transfer of
Estates Simplification Bill were read a second time.
Their lordships adjourned at half-past fiva o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. BRIGHT, who was warmly cheered from all
parts of the house as he approached the table, made
the declaration required from members of the Society
of Friends, and took his seat for Birmingham, in the
room of Mr. Muntz, deceased. He was introduced
by Mr. J. B. Smith and Mr. Ricardo, and was heartily
congratulated by several members upon his reappear
ante in Parliament. The declaration having been
subscribed, Mr. Bright took the seat which he occu-
pied during the last Parliament, below the gangway
on the Ministerial side.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT.
Mr. T. BARING presented a petition from the East
India Company, deprecating all change in the organi.
sation of the Indian Government " during the con-
tinuance of the present unhappy disturbances, and
without a full previous inquiry into the operation
of the present system." The hon. member an-
nounced that, when the India Reform Bill was
brought forward, he should propose an amendment
enunciating the opinion that it was inexpedient to
legislate on the subject under present circumstances.

JEWISII

After an appeal from Lord PALMERSTON, and in
spite of some remonstrances from Mr. NEWDEGATE,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE consented to postpone his motion
relative to the non•admission of Baron Rothschild
to his seat in the house. .

The adjourned debate on the Conspiracy to Murder
Bill was resumed by
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, who corrected some popular
errors regarding the incidents attending the attempt
male many years ago by Louis Napoleon at
Boulogne :

An hon. gentleman, a member of the Society of Friends,
and be supposed also a memter of the Peace Society, had
last night made a very inflammatory speech, in the course
of which he said that Louis Napoleon, when he landed at
Boulogne, shot a man with his own hand—LMr. Gilpin
here made a remark]. Well, assassinated a man himself,
if the hon. gentleman prefers that phrase. Now there was
not a word of truth in that statement. What really °cm:wed
—and knowing the facts, he felt it to be his duty to state
them in order to disabuse the press and the public mind
on the subject—was this :—The party that landed at
Boulogne were armed with pocket pistols, and in laniing
a pistol of one of the followers of Louis Napoleon went otl
—he had only one pistol himself, which was not fired—and
the ball went through the cheek of a man who was shouting
" Vive L'Empereur," and who soon recovered from his
wound. The only persons killed were two followers of
Louis Napoleon ; one of them, M. Forgue, was shot in the
back of the head by a National Guard, and the other, Count
Dunain, who was severely wounded by a gendarme, crept
into a wood shed, and was afterwards thrown into the sea,
where he was found with three balls in his body. These
were the only deaths which occurred when Louis Napoleon
landed at Boulogne, and therefore the hon. member for
Northamptonshire proved too much when he spoke of him
as a man who was denouncing assassins when he was an
assassin himself.

Mr. WARREN rose to oppose the motion. He
believed, he said, that the measure was not called
for ; that it would prove ineffectual, that it would be
derogatory to the national spirit., and a libel upon the
law of England. Nor was this the time when the
house ought to be called upon to alter that law, after
what he regarded as a menace.

Sir G. GREY replied to the objections offered to the
motion. These, he observed, were of two classes—
one directed against the enactments of the bill itself,
the other against the time at which the proposition
was made. As to the bill itself, irrespective of any
communication with the French Government, upon
looking into the state of our law upon this subject,
the attention of her Majesty's Government was called
by the transaction at Paris to what appeared to be