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perfectly legal, and to which the consent of the
Crown must be given before the bill became law ?
Upon a division the second reading was carried by
101 to 142.
The bill was then read a second time.
Mr. R. CURRIE, in reply to Mr. Roebuck, said he
should persist in the motion of which he had given
notice, to refer the bill to a select committee.
The house then went into committee upon the
Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, and afterwards
proceeded through the other orders.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES BILL.
On the motion of Mr. LowE, the Lords' amend-
ments to this bill were considered and agreed to.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.
Leave was given to Mr. DEEDES to bring in a bill
to amend the Criminal Justice Act of last session.
APPROPRIATION BILL.
This bill was brought in by Mr. WILSON, and read
a first time amid the cheers of the house.

HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY.
CRIMEAN INQUIRY.

Lord PANNURE, in reply to the Earl of Lucan,
stated that the report from the Crimean Commission
of Inquiry was not yet presented to her Majesty, in
consequence of the indisposition of the Commander•
in-Chief. He could not specify any date on which
the document could be laid before the house.

SCUTARI MONUMENT.

The Earl of HARRINGTON asked : Ist. On whose
authority was the Scutari monument undertaken?
2nd. Who selected Baron Marochetti to undertake
the work ? 3rd. From what fund was the payment
to be made? 4th. Why was the work not subjected
to public competition, so that the sculptors of Eng-
land, France, Italy, and Germany might have sent
models, and an obelisk have been produced that
would have immortalised our warriors and the
sculptor for ages to come?
Lord PANMURE, in reply, denied that the monument
alluded to partook of an historical character, being
purely a tribute to the memory of the gallant men
who had fallen in the war. In erecting it the
Government had only followed the public wish, for
the funds had been voted by the House of Commons,
and in selecting Baron Marochetti they had been
guided by his previous reputation. The foremost
artists of this country had nothing to complain of, as
they bad over and over again declined to compete for
public works. He (Lord Panmure) believed that
Baron Marochetti's work would, when erected on the
spot intended, be a complete success. Neither was
it fair to treat him altogether as a foreigner, seeing
the number of years he had been settled in this coun-
try ; nor could the work be looked upon as strictly
an English national work, seeing that the monument
was intended to commemorate the French and Italians
who had fallen in the war as well as the English.
He (Lord Panmurel took upon himself the responsi-
bility of Baron Marochetti's appointment, and felt
sure that he would produce a work of which the nation
would approve.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY.
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.

On the order for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. KNIGHT moved to defer the committee for
three months, objecting that the bill differed ma.
terially from the bills of 1848 and 1851; that the
remedial clauses in the latter were omitted; that it
repealed the existing right of appeal; and that it
doubled the amount allowed to be raised on

mortgage.
Mr. PAUL seconded the amendment.

Mr. COWPER defended the bill, which, he said,
remedied ambiguities in the present law, and made
necessary alterations preparatory to dealing next
year with more important matters—the organic
changes in the constitution of the Board of Health.
If any of the clauses of the bill nould appear to re-
quire much discussion, he was willing to postpone
them until next year.
After a debate, in which Mr. HENLEY, Mr.
BAINES, Mr. T. GREENE, Mr. BARROW, and Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE took part, the house divided, when the
amendment was carried by 73 to 61.
Mr. COWPER then said he should introduce a con-
tinuance bill for one year.
Two bills for regulating the Court of Chancery in
Ireland (the Receivers and Court of Appeal Bill)
passed through committee.