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Queen, he will give a grand banquet in honour of
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Are you a phrenologist P
Laic US.

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That Roebuck's skull with callipers.
LAICUS.

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Why, had you found a bump
Of veneration large enough to serve
As footstool for a weary flea, your science
Had hood confuted. But I interrupt you.
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LAICUS.

Tben Spooner spoke, belike, in explanation ;

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Spoke learnedly of asses, quoting Shakespeare
As Satan might quote Scripture—slang'd the Lords
For " paltry, pitiful, disgraceful " doings
Most grossly—

And Duncotube as the Peers Apologist.
What could they do--tripp'd up, and by a side-wind
Ousted from jurisdiction ?
CLERICUS.
'Twits perplexing ;
London, England, 1858-07-24

NW an Volta.

CURIOUS ACTION OF EJECTMENT AT Yong.—A
curious trial came off last Tuesday at York to re-
cover possession of a small estate in the North
Riding. Mr. Bliss, Q.C., Mr. Cleasby, and Mr.
Blanshard appeared for the claimant; and Mr.
Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Unthank for the defendant.
The defendant was the tenant in possession of the
estate, and the question turned on the point whether
the landlord of the defendant was born in wedlock
or not. The marriage was alleged to have taken
place about the year 1790, and it so happened that
no entry of it could be found in the register, and the
defendant was therefore obliged to rely on a mar-
riage by reputation. Accordingly, it was proved that
the parties in question were always reputed man
and wife, that they were received as such In
society, and that the woman always wore a
wedding ring. In addition to this it was proved
from the parish register that the banns were
duly published three times in the respective
parishes of the parties ; but, as was alleged, by some
strange accident no entry of the marriage itself
could be found. Two persons were then called, who,
it was at first supposed, were present at the cere-
London, England, 1858-07-24

THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION.

THE session of Parliament is practically over.
All the measures of any importance, which are to
become laws, are already agreed upon ; and
nothing but a few formal proceedings remain to
bring us to the day of Prorogation. We know
no reason whywe should stand idly gazing until
the last forms have been gone through, before we
take a rapid glance at the results of the Parlia-
mentary year.

The session of 1858 has been one of the
most remarkable ever known. Its results have
been those which no one could have antici-
pated. It commenced by throwing out of office
a Minister who imagined his seat to be the safest

possible. Lord PAtmErtwrost had seen a House
of Commons elected, especially to support him.
He felt so secure, and so proud of this support,
that he told men like Mr. GrADSTONE and Mr.
DISRAELI, that he treated their opposition with
entire disregard." In this same spirit of self-
confidence, he flung up the reins, one fine
morning, in the belief that neither the Queen
nor the Parliament could get on without him,
and that his return to office must be solicited as a
favour in the course of a very few weeks.
To his surprise, he found that he had miscalcu-
lated; and he then commenced active measures

to force his recal. Before the new Government
had been two months in Downing-street, Lord
PALMERSTON began to call meetings at Cam-
bridge-house, with a view to drive the Derby
Administration from power. Although his
return to power was not solicited, as he reckoned
that it would have been, he never doubted for a
moment that he was quite able to compel the
Sovereign and the Legislature to ask a renewal
of his services, whenever it suited him to take the
usual steps. But his second hope failed, as much
as his first had done. Office had not " come to
him ;" and now when he stooped to scheme and
plan for it, his schemes and plans all failed. The
Cardwell battering-ram broke down, before its
first stroke could be applied to the Ministerial
citadel. The second hope of the expectant place-
hunters failed as signally as the first had done.
A third anticipation, however, remained. The
Palmerstonians, as they slunk away from the
Cardwell discomfiture, consoled themselves with
the prophecy, that "notwithstanding their lucky
"escape, the Ministry would not be in office
another month." The India Bill was coming
on—the Government would be defeated on every
material question, and it was impossible that,
with a mere minority of the House, they could
ever see the 10th of June as Ministers of
England.

But this last hope was as signally disappointed
as the former had been. The Bill for the better
government of India was read a second time.
and went into committee. Now was the time
for Lord PALmEßsros to put forth his strength,
London, England, 1858-07-24

CLERICUEL
;„ Who named Despair ?
, Were twenty Rothschilds juggled into seats,
Still England's voice would speak through England's Senate.
• We are a Christian people yet. Farewell,

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MARRIAGES.

BIRCH—ME LLIS—On the 15th instant, at Hewisfield Church,
Gloucestershire, Fred. Macdonald Birch, Esq., son of Major.
General Birch, C. 8., to Elizabeth Emily I.ouiaa, daughter of
the late James Menlo, Esq.
RA DSTOCK —CA LCHAFT—On the 16th instant, at Trinity
Church, Marylebone, Lord Red-tuck, to Susan Charlotte
daughter of John Hales Calcraft, M.P.
London, England, 1858-07-24

TTJESDAY.

The Bill converting the Encumbered Estates
Act into the Sale and Transfer of Land (Ireland)
Act was sharply opposed by Lord CRANWORTIt
and some other law lords. To the legal mind,
any estoppel of litigation, brought about by bar-
ring the claims of hypothetical ejectors against
the actual owners of landed estates, constitutes
an unpardonable outrage upon justice. In lay
appreciation this consequence, even if taken at
its worst extremity, can be regarded with com-
placency. Thus : A enjoys an estate as the na-
tural heir of his father and grandfather, who
enjoyed it before him. B, as the representative
of a collateral branch, accidentally discovers that,
on account of the misspelling of a name, the in-
formality of a register, the slovenly mode of
executing some legal instrument, or other tech-
nical casualty, there is left an opening through
which he can insert his own claim to the
property. An Act assigning a Parliamentary title
to land, which will effectually put out of Court
London, England, 1858-07-24

AMERICA.

On the 18th of June an earthquake was severely
felt in Mexico, and upwards of fifty persons lost their
lives.
The British and French Ministers had advised the
payment of the forced loan under protest, but Mr.
Forsyth gave the proposal his decided opposition,
and has demanded his passports. He awaits in-
structions from the United States Government.
General Vidaurri was marching on the capital.
'rho New Orleans cotton market was very dull,
and prices were easier, although quotations were
nominally unchanged. • The sales of the week
amounted to 7,000 bal,:s.

The steamship Fulton. from Southampton, was
intercepted oil Cape Race on the 10th inst., and her
news telegraphed to New York.
London, England, 1858-07-24

INDIA BILL.

The Earl of Et LENBOROUGH and the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE pressed on the Earl of Derby the propriety
of postponing the committee on the India B►ll until
Tuesday evening, on the ground of the thin atten-
dance of the house ; hut Lord DERBY declined to
accede to the suggestion, and Lord Et LENBortouox
then opposed (in committee) clause 34, regulating
appointments to the scientific branches of the Indian
army. The proposal to give these appointments by
competition was an act of homage to democracy ; it
was totally uncalled for. It would affect injuriously
the future efficiency of the artillery and engineers of
the Indian army.
The Earl of DERBY maintained that the principle
of competition was actually in force at Woolwich and
Addiscombe. He was not insensible to the advantages
of birth and station, but he could not join with Lord
Ellenborough in saying that because a person hap-
pened to be the son of a tailor, a grocer, or a cheese-
monger, provided his mental qualifications were
equal to those of his competitors, he was to be
excluded from honourable competition for an appoint-
ment in the public service. By omitting the last
three lines the clause would not introduce the
s3stem of strict competition. The clause provided
that persons should be admitted into the artillery
and engineers upon an examination, the regulations
for which examination should with ail convenient
speed be prepared and prescribed by the Secretary of
State under the authority of the Crown.
The Duke of SOMERSET opposed the clause.
After a discussion, in which Earl Granville, the
Earl of Hardwicke, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord
Cranwortb, Lord Monteagle, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Broughton took part, the committee divided.
The numbers were :—Contents 41, non-contents :34 ;
majority 7.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 35 to 51 were also agreed to.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH proposed, in clause
52, the insertion of words placing it beyond doubt
or question that the expenditure of India should be
charged on the revenue of India alone.
The consideration of the clause was postponed for
the amendment to be printed.
The Earl of DERBY proposed, in clause 53, the
insertion of words with a view to the periodical
production before Parliament of statistical infor-
mation respecting the moral and material progress
of India.
The clause, as amended, was agreed to.

THE PRESS, JULY 24, 1858.

After some discussion on clause 55, it was agreed
to as amended. The remaining clauses of the bill
were also agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be
reported on Tuesday.
Their lordships adjourned a few minutes before
twelve o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—MoNDAY.
London, England, 1858-07-24

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1858.

POSTSCRIPT.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The Royal assent was given by commission to the
Oaths Rill, the Jew Bill, and a long series of public
and private measures.

SIARRIAGF. WITH A DECEASF.D WIFE'S SISTER.

The second reading of the Marriage Law Amend-
ment Bill was moved by Viscount GAGE.
Lord REDESDALE, in opposing the measure, argued
at much length against the proposed legalization of
marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
Lord Lrsnistntsr supported the bill.
In the discussion which ensued, and which turned
chiefly upon arguments for and against the scriptural
prohibition of the unions in question, Earl Nelson,
Lord Cranworth, Lord Wodehouse, Earl Granville,
the Bishop of Ripon, and Lord Overstone defended
the bill, while Lord Dungannon, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of
Exeter, and the Bishop of Lincoln opposed it.
Their lordships divided on the motion for second
reading :
Contents 22
Non Contents 46

The bill is consequently rejected.
The Reformatory Schools (Ireland) Bill was read
a second time.

The Government of India Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Sale and Transfer of Land (Ireland) Bill was
also road a third time and passed.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ELECTION CORRUPTION.

At the early sitting of the house, tho Corrupt
Practices Prevention Act Amendment Bill was
brought up for consideration, as amended in com-
mittee.

Some further modifications in the clauses were pro-
posed, and the discussion was still proceeding when
the time arrived for suspending business.

lIECRUITS TO INDIA.

In the evening, replying to a question from Mr.
EViLIIT,

Lord STANLEY stated that since February reinforce-
ments had been sent to India to the number of
17,000 men. The Government were quits aware of
the importance of striking some decisive blow for the
suppression of revolt in that country, during the
next cold season, and were making preparations
accordingly.
London, England, 1858-07-24

TH6 JEW BILL.

On the order for resuming the adjourned debate
on the third reading of this bill,
Mr. WARREN, in a speech full of denunciations and
dismal vaticinations, moved to defer the third reading
for three months.
The amendment was seconded by Mr. lloPwoop.
Mr. ROEBUCK, after some severe strictures upon
[he House of Lords, observed that they had done a
goon thing in a foolish manner; but because they
had thrown discredit upon themselves this house
must not be blamed.
Mr. SPOIiNER vindicated his own consistency, au&
declared that if the house wished to degrade the
London, England, 1858-07-24

THE QUARTERLIES.

To review Reviews appears at first sight
analogous to Mr. Weller's notion of " vheels
ithin vheels." But on second thoughts there is
of course no valid reason why this species of
iterature should not be as regularly criticized as
any other. Seeing, also, that at the present day
so much of the thought and taste of the nation
finds expression through this channel, and that
the number of regular books is diminished in
proportion, we should of course fail to make our
readers acquainted with some of the most remark-
able productions of the age, were we pedantically
to adhere to any rule that should exclude
periodical-writing from a full consideration in
our columns.

The Westminster Review for July is some-
what heavier than usual. But it presents con-
siderable variety. The paper upon Calvin is
good because nothing lately has appeared upon
the subject; but we by no means subscribe to all
the writer's views. The article on Church-
rates is rather historical than practical. The
present state of the question is, however, briefly
and correctly put as regards facts, but the
writer's deductions are fundamentally erroneous.
For instance, in speaking of the Braintree case,
he says :

In that year, 1833, the Lords at length passed the preg-
nant decision, " that a rate must be made by the majority ;
and that no other rate is valid." By this decision the state
of the law Was rendered not only clear, hut indisputable ;
the pretence of church-rate being a charge upon the lend
was swept away ; the impost stcod forth in its true character
of a personal tax—once unexceptionable, bin long ego
become opressive through change of circumstances—and
the ground was cleated for efforts to get rid of the impost
altogether, such as the measures which have been since
brought forward in Parliament, obtaining larger and
larger majorities in the HOuse of Commons.

Now, no decision of the House of Lords or any
other body can alter facts. If we ask the simple
question of who would benefit by the abolition of
Church-rates, we shall soon see whether the
Church-rate is a charge upon land, or a personal
tax. In the first instance, of course, the money
London, England, 1858-07-24

INDIA AND CHINA.

The following telegram has been received from
the Times Corfu correipondent, dated July 22 :

ALEXANDRIA, July 18.
The Calcutta ana C'ints mails have arrived, with dates
from Calontte to the 18th of June; Madras, to the 2.oth ;
and Hong Kong, to the 7th.
Gwalior we recaptured from the rebels on the 111th of
June. The Cavalry end Artillery were in pursuit of the
sn • my.
Th. Ranee of Jhansi is reported to be killed.
Scindia left. Agra on the 13th of June to join the Central
In lie Field Force on its way to Gwalior.
Oude continued disturbed.
In Rohilenind all is tranquil.
The Calcutta import-market is quiet. Supplies of ex-
ports small.
The money-market is unaltered. Exchange, 2s. 02d. to
ld for credits.

CHINA.

The forts at the months of the Peiho were captured on
the 2Uth of May by the British and French farces; the
latter suffered severely from the explosion of a mine.
An unsuccessful expedition had been made against a
Chinese camp near Canton.
SHANGHAI May 31.

•
Trade is unsettled by the intelligence from the- Peiho.
The new silk crop is favourably reported upon.
Etchings, 6s. Id. for bank bills; 6s. lid. to Os. 2d. for
credits.

At Canton trade is almost at a complete standstill.
At Hong Kong exchange is 4i. 7d. for credits.

The following telegram from Acting Consul-
General Green to the Earl of Malmesbury was re-
ceived at the Foraigu•otfce on Thursday, July 22,
1958, at 4.45 p.m.:—

ALIXANDRIA, July 18.
The steamer Caidia arrived nt Suez yesterday.
Her dates are—Calcutta, 19th June ; Madras, 25th
(}alle, 29th; Men, 11th July ; and Hong Kong, 7th June.
The forces under bir H. Rose have retaken Gwalior,
after a severe fight of four hours, on the 201 of June.
[The Times correspondent says 19th June.]
This news is from Madras.
Commander lieamish, R.N., with despittchas from Lord
Elgin and the Admiral, arrived by the Candia on the 20th
of May.
The forts at the month of the Peiho, mounting 138 guns,
backed by a large body of troops, were attacked by the Eng-
lish and French gunboats, and taken with trifling loss on
oar side. The Chinese stood to their guns very fairly.
Oa the 22nd the force commenced advancing up the
river.
Weather cod, and squadron in excellent health and
spirits.
Six thousand French troops, originally destined for
Cochin Chins, are on their way to the Gulf of Pechelee.

At Canton on the 2nd of June an attempt was made,
without any good effect, to rout the braves on the moun-
tains in the vicinity.
Ming Poo is in possession of the rebels, and the Eng-
lish morchants on board her Majesty's ship Surprise.
London, England, 1858-07-24

IlGJ'I:i

Ift

• And yet, methinks, the straightest course were best :
' -Let Russell scat his Rothschild, if he could—
`)T
Ihy need the Lords indorse a City bargain ?
5.
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But 'twits well said of Duncombe. 'Who came next ?
LATCUS.
Oh, Newdegate—a good, straightforward speech :
For Derby, hamper'd by his son and friend,
Regretful, not abusive—on the squad
Of Liberals, who clamour for concession
9,• With threats and welcome it with contumely,
"'• Justly severe. :Rethought he talk'd too much
Of Jesuits and their plotting

it't; oipas t•, Nay, I know not ;
He may have fair(' to show the true connection,
But when you see the Papist back the Jew,
And give through British hands what Rome refuses,
There's something meant (had we the skill to trace it)
Which is not Toleration. But proceed.
LAICUS.
"1* "tis all told, or nearly all. Lefroy,
And oar stout Admiral, Walcott, spoke their mind,
And pleaded briefly for a Christian law
And Christian Legislature—but in vain.
Noses were counted, and the Bill was pass'd.
I left the 'motley, mad majority
Shouting their triumph—
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bc;wnbill is easy waking, so descent
Seems like success. And yet 'tis passing strange f •
So many ill-match'd voices should unite
`Yn •
such a cause. The nation likes it not— Still, lilt
the Church still less ; but she, alas ! is gagg'd--.•;11-i
She may not speak.
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London, England, 1858-07-24

FOR

BY JOHN BRUCE NORTON, ESQ.,
BARRIsTER.AT•LAW, MADRAS,
AUTHOR OF " THE REBELLION IN INDIA."
ON THE PRINCIPAL QUESTIONS OF INDIAN REFOILM, MILITARY AND JUDICIAL; ON LAND TENURE,
CENTRALIZATION, COLONIZATION, PROSELYTISM, ETC.
RICHARDSON, BROTHERS, 23, CORNHILL, E.C.
London, England, 1858-07-24

THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.

Mr. C. FORTESCUR, who had given notice of a
motion on the subject of the right of search and
r•isitation, as exercised upon ships suspected of slave
trading, briefly remarked upon the importance of the
subject, hoping that the Government would explain
the course they intended to adopt, and the issue of
their investigations on the subject with the United
States, before the Close of the session.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD deprecated premature discus-
sion upon a question of such extreme delicacy. The
correspondence with the United States was ►till pro

THE PRE
London, England, 1858-07-24

THE PRESS, JULY 24, 1858.

southern frontier of freedom, than as the northern
outpost of servitude. It is quite true, we trust,
that she numbers many sons who would fain see
her resume the lofty place she once occupied as
the champion of liberty, unwillingly tolerating
even the remains of an institution by which she
felt herself degraded. But shortsighted cupidity
too often gives a stronger impulse than the most
far-seeing patriotism ; and the fetters of habit,
though little felt, are not easily broken. And,
whatever effect it may produce as a warning to
free States, we fear that as regards Virginia the
fresh effi)rt to perpetuate slavery, to which we
have this day called attention, can scarcely be
deemed a good augury. If in any sense hope-
ful, it can be so only as the darkest hour is said
to precede the sunrise.
London, England, 1858-07-24

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

On the sth of June his Excellency the Governor,
in the presence of the L tgislative Council and House
of Assembly, assembled in the state-room at Govern-
menthouse, assented in her Majesty's name to
certain bills, anti prorogued Purlianient till the 15th
of July. the speech delivered by Sir George Grey
on thts occasion may be said to contain also the
latest Cape news of general Interest. Among other
thing his Excellency remarked:—
I em happy in being able to inform you that British
Kaffraria is in a perfectly tranquil state, anti that sanguine
expectations may now be reasonably indulged that the
great natimil resources of that fertile country may ne un-
interruptedly developed, in which case it will very shortly
attain to a high degree of prJaperity, and will contribute
greatly to the wealth and commerce of this colony.
London, England, 1858-06-05

BENTLEY:

ALSO, IMMEDIATELY,

ACCOUNT OF THE

AND THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW RESIDENCY,
WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF THE MUTINY.

• By MARTIN RICHARD GUBBINS,
FINANCIAL COMMISSIONER FOR OUDH. One Volume, with Illustration*.
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to her AI ojeaty.

Now ready, New Edition, in 1•24 ,
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