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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1853.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—Famay.

Their lordships were almost exclusively occupied
with &conference with the Commons, in which their
lordships' amendments to a variety of bills were con-
sidered and agreed to.
A few petitions having been presented, the hout:e
adjourned at six o'clock until two this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock.
Mr. I. Burr presented a petition from Mr. P.
Somers, the late unsuccessful candidate for the bo-
rough of Sligo, complaining of unparliamentary prac-
tices with regard to his petition against the return of
Mr. John Sadleir for that place.
Mr. SAMMIE denied all personal implication in
the allegations of the petition, and solicited investiga-
tion into the charges made.
Mr. I. Burr intimated his intention of proceeding
to such an inquiry.
Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to Mr. Aglionby, said
that he had observed in the public papers numerous
instances of outrageous assaults by men upon
women. He entertained the hope, however, that
when the law recently passed became better known
these outrages would abate. (Hear, hear.) If such
were not the case it might be necessary to add cor-
poral punishment to the present sentences of impri-
sonment with hard labour. (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Lord D. Stuart, said
that negotiations between this country and the tie-
vernments of Central America and the United States
with regard to the territory of Mosquito were still
pending.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Spooner, said
that the commission for inquiring into the state of
education at the College of Maynooth would be ap-
pointed forthwith.

THE CABE OF MR. EDWARD MURRAY.

Lord Jolts RUSSELL, in answer to Lord Dudley
Stuart., stated that repeated applications had 'teen
made to the Court of Rome on behalf of this gentle-
man, now under sentence of imprisonment for life,
and the latest answer received was to the effect that
for proceedings less guilty than those for which he
had been punished the sentence of death hp.d been
awarded; and that, therefore, the Papal Court could
not grant any further remission of punishment. At
present, therefore, there was no prospect of attaining
any further remission of sentence.

THE CABE OE PHILLIPS THE CABMAN.

Lord PALMERSTON' in reply to the same. noble lord,
said in reference to this case, that the police had
measured the ground and ascertained That the cab-
man had not made an overcharge. (Hear, hear.)
A direction had been given, therefore, that the 40s.
tine should be refurned to Phillips„ and that he
should be handed another 40s. for t'ae loss of time
and annoyance to which he had be'3n subjected.
The business on the paper having become ex-
hausted, the rest of the sitting wr.s consumed in dis-
cussing and agreeing to the Lords' amendments to
various bills.

Mr. CAYLRY gave notice of Mr. intention, early next
session, to move for a select tlommittee to consider
the expediency of awarding an official salary to the
Leader of the House of Comn ions.

The house then adjourned at a few minutes before
ix until two o'clock this day.

The Emperor of France has postponed his depar-
ture for Dieppe, which has given. occasion for a good
deal of vague speculation ; th is being the second
time his Majesty has changed h is determination.

The Council of State met o'3 Thursday. but no
business of importance was ti smsacted. The next
Hitting will not take place before the Bth of next
month.

The duties on solid bitume•a have been abolished
by Imperial decree.
Advices from Servia, received by way of the Danube,
to the Ath, state that the ay proach of the Russian
troops caused a violent excitement in that country.
Knicanin had been appoint( td commander•in-chief of
the Servian forces, and the ► chiefs of the various dis-
tricts have been placed under his orders. The
Russians bear a rough irooden cross, and declare
their desire to make war• for "the cross and the
faith."

THE PRESS.

RESUME OF THE SESSION.
THE PARLIAIIIINTAXT BENSION, which will this day ( Satur-
day ) be brought to a close, has been of an unusually pro,
tracted and laborious character. lta career commenced,
under the Administration of the Earl of Derby, upon the 4th

November, 1852, when the constituent of the representa-
tive branch of the Legislature comprised a greater number
of new and inexperienced members than any previous Par-
liament for many years past. Under these auspices it pro-
greased until the pith of the following month, when Lord
Derby resigned, and a new Cabinet was formed by the Earl
of Aberdeen. On the 31st Parliament adjourned, and on
the 10th February, 1853, it reassembled for the uew busi-
ness of the session.

During this period the House of Commons has sat 150
days and 1,152 hours; being in 1802, 38 days and 174
holm; and in 1853, 121 days and 9,7113 hours. In 1852

the sittings averaged four eleven-nineteenth hours each;
and in 1833, eight one-twenty-fourth hours each. Dining
the whole session they have averaged seven and a quarter
hours each. The total number of hours in which the
house sat past midnight is 12ft, being six ands half hours in
ISM, and 1 in 1103. Altogether these sittings amount
to fifteen five-eighth days of eight hours each. The phe-
itomenon known as a " no house" has occurred only once,
munely, on the 7th of June ; but the " counts out," including
the "no houses" at six o'clock, when the house met at
twelve, have been eight in number. The total number of
divisions taken in the Commons has been 200, being 21 in
1852, and 239 in 183. The greatest number in any one
day has been nine ; which occurred on the 7th of July and
the Ist of August. The divisions in the Lords have
amountod to twenty-five only, all of them in the course of
the present year.
The acts which received the Royal assent under the
Derby Administration were the Bills of Exchange and
Notes Metropolis 11ill (a temporary measure, having re•
ference to bills falling due on the day of the Duke of Wel-
lington's funeral), which received the Royal assent, on the
17th November ; the Bank Notes Bill; the West India Co-
lonies, tte., Loans Act Amendment !till; and the Commons
Inclosure Bill, which received the Royal assent on the 10th
Decentber. Several other bills which were prepared by
the lave Government have since been enrolled upon the
statute book.
Subjoined is a resume of some of the more important
events of the session :

1842.-Ni

4. The new Parliament opened by commission, and the
swearing in of peers and members proceeded with. In
the Commons, Mr. Speaker elected.
11. The swearing in of members continued until to-day,
when parliament was formally opened by the Queen in
person. The address, in reply to the gracious speech
from the throne, moved and agreed to in both houses.
12. Meat age from the Queen relative to the funeral of
the Duke of Wellington.
10. In the Lords, the Chancellor made an elaborate
statement upuu the administration of the law in the Cou►ts

of Chancery.
17. Both houses resolved to attend the funeral of the
Duke of Wellington.
IS. Parliament attended at the funeral, and did not sit
for the despatch of hnsiness.
22. Mr. Napier introduced a series of bills for improving
the relations between Lindlord and tenant in Ireland.
23. Mr. Villiers brought on his celebrated motion de-
daring free trade to be a " wise, just, and beneficial
measure."
25. Debate on the free-Wide resolution continued.
241. The same continued, ►end divisions taken.
29. Sir A. Cockburn brought on the case of the Derby
election petition.

I)}:ernin ER.

3. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made his financial
statement.
6. The Marquis of rlanricarde intrislneed the flee-trade
question into the Lords. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
announced the change in the Government .4 France, and
the recognition by this country of Naiwieen 111. The
debate on the budget resumed. Supply, involving the
question of the defences of the country, introduced.
9. Mr. Wilson called attention to the effect of the 4ugar
Duties Acts of 1846 and 1848 upon the liritislt sugar-
producing colonies.
10. The proposed new house tax under discussion in
the Commons.
10. Mr. Goulburn brought up the report of the Derby
election committee. Division talvn ou the inhabited
house duty, and the Government defeated by a majority
of 19, the numbers being—Ayes, 288 ; noes, 303.
IM. The Earl of Malmesbury announced in the Lords
that, in consequence of the division in the other House,
the Prime Minister had gone to see ht.r Majesty at Osborne.
The Commons did not meet.
20. The Earl of Derby in the Lordi, and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer in the Commons, stated that Ministers
had tendered their resignation to hey Majesty, and that it
had been aecepted.
23. The Earl of Derby announced that the Earl of Aber-
deen had undertaken to form an Adm;'nistration.
27. In the Lords the Earl of Aberdeen made a Ministe-
rial statement. The Commons occupied with the issuing
of new writs consequent upon the G overnment appoint-
ments.
From this date till the Illst occupied in a similar
manner, when Parliament adjourned WI February IU.

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10. Parliament reasserublei:-I;r4 St. Leonard's laid
upon the table a series of measures connected with law
reform. The Earl of Derby put a question to the Premier
relative to the Ministerial policy. In the Commons, Lord
J. Russell made a statement upon the Uoremment amt.
sures to be introduced.
U. The Lord chancellor introduced important atemares
of law reform. The Marquis oft lanricarde brut/ he beken
the consideration of the house a speech recently nada by
Sir C. Wood at Halifax, in which the right hon. baronet
spoke slightingly of the Erupenir of the French. Mr.
Disraeli brought forward the same subject to the Cow•
molts. _

Mr. Peel brought in the Clergy Reserves (Csaids)
Bill ; and the Bishop of Exeter raised a discussion as the
same subject in the Lords.
17. Mr. Kinuaird called attention to religious persecu-
tions in Tuscany, as exemplified in the case of as
adiai. _ _

IK. Mr. Disraeli made Latakia raepeeti. pit eite Wallow
with Imam The navy emanates proceeded with is ow
mittee of supply.
t 4. Mr. bpoouor brought on bis =we& MANI
24. The Lad of Ellenboronsh attention to the
war with Ave. bir J. Pekingese
_made a speech as the
Australian colonies. Laid J. Russell Mated the views of
the Government relative to the civil disabilities of the
Jews.

2;o. The Earl of Ellenborough introduced the Indian
question in the Lords, and Str H. Willoughby the war
with Ave in the t'ommons. The army estimates proceeded
with in committee. . _

....
2s. The Earl of Derby introduced the subject of the
Canada clergy reserves.
MARCH.

4. Lord Lyndhurst directed attention to the conduct of
foreign retngees in this country. The Canada Clergy
Reserves Bill was read $ second tune in the Common*.
7. National education in Ireland brought before the
Louis by the Earl of Chuwarty. Questions connected
with pilotage and the mercantile marine in the Commons.
10. Mr. Fitzroy brought in the Aggravated Annaba
Bill.

The Earl of Ellenborough in the Upper, and Ifr.
Bright in the Lower House, introduced the question of the
fUture government of India. The Jewish Disabilities Bill
read a eecomi time in the Commons.

17. The Six•wile•bridge affray before the House of
Commons.
IM. The same subject in the Lords. hutment isd.
jounied fur the Easter mess.

4. Parliament reassembled. Lord Campbell made a
speech upon the recent City address to Len). Napoleon.
Lord J. Russell stated the intentions of the .tilesernment
with regard to national education.
7. Addresses in both houses to her Majesty on the birth
of a prince. The Irish Consolidated Annuities under die.
CUIIMiOII in the Commons.
S. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated the proposi-
tions of the Government with respect to portions ee the
National Debt.

11. The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, and the Lew of
Evidence I Scotland) Bill, passed the Commons.
14. Mr. M. Wham moved his well•known resolutions for
the repeal of the " tales on knowledge," and divisions were
taken upon them.
15. In the Commons, railway smal , and the
seizure of alleged warlike stores at r. Hale's fictery,
Hotherhithe, were wider discussion. The Jewish Dis-
abilities Bill, after a long a►►d animated debate, passed by
2ss to 230. _ _ _

18. The Chancellor of the Exchequer propounded his
budget. In the Lords the Eerie( Winchilant failed to ob-
tain a committee of inquiry into the system of education
at Maynooth.
111. In the Lords the case of Mr. Kirwan, and in the

Conn !!!!!! Sir 11. Hall's motion with respect to the doings
of the Board of Admiralty, were under discussion.
21. Mr. Fitzroy brought in his Hackney Carriages Bill.
22. The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill debated at length,
and mad a second time, in the Lords. In the Commons
the South Hes and other Annuities Compensation Bill
went through committee.
24. The income and property tax resolutions debated
in the Commons and adjourned.
211. The South Sea, tte., Bill passed the Commons.
2t4. The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill passed the Lords.
The budget debate resumed in the commons.
ID. The Jewish Disabilities Bill was thrown out in the
Lords by a majority of let to Ilb.

MAT.

2. Sir E. B. Lytton's amendment on the income•tu re-
solution in the budget lost in the Commons by 323 to 233.
3. The South b 4 s, &c., Bill read a third time in tits
Lank. The Chatham election under discus/don in the
Commons.
h. Mr. Hale's rase discussed in the Commons, et the
instance of Mr. T. buncombe.

6. Mr. Duffy's conduct led to a debate.
Earl Grey failed to obtain an address to her Majesty
on the subject of secondary punishments. Mr. T. Cham•
berm brought in his Nunneries Bill.
12. The income•taz resolution of the budget finally
passed the Commons ; and the debate on the legacrduty
resolution was resumed.

13. Parliament adjourned for the Whitsuntide recess.
111. huliameut reassembled, and the civil service seth
mates announced in committee of supply.
20. Mr. Phillimore unsuccessful in an attempt to bribe
in a bill for the reform of the chureh•rate system.
27. The Earl of Malmesbury in the Lords, and Mr. Dis-
raeli in the Commons, drew (Mention to the relative posi-
tions of Russia and the Porte. The♦ BUMlllielitili Bill
under discussion in the Lords.

• 30. Russia and the Porte, and the importation of slaves
into Cuba, formed the staple of the debates in the Lords.
. 31. Lord Lyn§lburvit's Alteration of Oaths B►ll was read
a second time In the Lords. Mr. Moore brought the ques•
tion of the Irish Church under the consideration of the
Commons.

Jun.
1. Lordhant's Judges' Exclusion 11111 lost on the
(bird reading in the Commons by 224 to 12:1.
2. Lord Lyndhurst's Alteration of Oaths Bill lost on
going into committee by $1 to 61). The hackney Car.
;ages Bill passed the Commons.
3. Sir C. Wood introduced his measure for the future
government of India.
8. The war in Burnish discussed in the Lords. The
Indian debate resumed and again adjourned in the
commons.
10. The Marquis of Westmeath impugned the conduct
of Mr. Keogh at the last Westmeath electiun. The Sue,
cymbal Duty Bid read a second time in the Commons.
13. India muter discussion in the Lords.
11. Mr. H. Berkeley brought. on his annual motion upon
the ballot, which was lost by 232 to 112.
The soap duties resolution agreed to in committee.
18. Mr. Keogh made his defence in the Commons, iu
repli t the attack in the Lords upon the 10th.
IT. 111 e same came referred to ill the Lords, audit warm
debate upon it. The Excise Duties on Spirits Bill passed
the Commons.
21 The Income-tax hill read a second time in the
Lords. The Marquis of Bhindford in the other house
brought in his bill relative to episcopal and eapitular pro-
peaty.
23. Adjourned debate on India Bill continued in the
Ctimmons.

2d. Thu house met for the first time this session (ex-
cept on Wednesdays) at twelve o'clock. The Indian de-
bate resumed and again'adjourned.
27. The Income-tax Bill passed the Lords.
10. The Duke of Newcastle iutrixhiced several tiovcni-
ment measures for ameliorating the condition of the
Island of Jamaica. The Govenunent of India Bill read a
*mond time in the Commons.
.1111. Y.

1. The Customs Acts reaolutions agreed to in the
Commons, and the IVestminster•bridgt Hill read a third
time and passed.
A. Mr. 4olllrr introduced a bill to amend the constitu-
tion of the Ecclesiastical (onus. Mr. Cobbett brought in
a bill for limiting Ote hours of labour of .women, Sc., in
factories.

7. The Turkish question discusiied in the Isirds.
11. On.the motion of the Lod Chancellor, the Trans-
tiortationll was read a second time in the loinls. The
tlovernment of India Hill was resumed in committee in
the Commons. The Betting-honses Bill introduced.
12. The Merchant Shipping Rill in committee, and the
Malt tax under discussion, in the Commons..
13. The County Bates and Expenditure Rill was aban-
doned, and the Simony Law Amendment 101 l thrown out,
in the Commons.

7-14. The Universities (Sentland) Rill, and the News-
paper Stamp Ditties Bill, read a second .time in the
Commons.
15. The Earl of Ellenhomngit brought the subject of
the Indian army under the attention of the Lords. In
the Commons the Merchant Shipping BM went through
committee.
18. Russia and Turkey, the mat duty in India, and
national education in • Ireland, seversily occupied the
attention of the Lords. Mr. Bright brought the subject
of the Peterborough elevtion. before the t'ommons. The
Succession Duties Rill read a third t• and prised.
' 20. Lord It. Grosvenor's Hilt fur Repealing the Attorneys'
Certificate Duty lost on se and reading by to It r.l.
• 21. Mr. Munta's .niatien far allowing strangers in the
house dining divisions agreed to,
' 72. After * lengthy debate the' Succession Duties. Rill
iras read a second time in the Lords.
25. In the Lords the same bill went through com-
mittee, and the Colonial Church Regulation Hill was
read a third time and poised. The Entry of Seamen's
Bill went *rough committee in the c ~,,,,, ions.
27. The cabmen's strike attracted the attention of the
Commons, and the Hackney t7arriage Duties ( No. 2)
Bin was read a second time. The timernment of India
Bill finally went through committee.
28.• The Succession Duties Hill passed the Lords. The
South Sea Annuities Dissentients Hill, and the Govern-
ment of India Bill, on the report, under discussion in the
Lower House.

V. The Customs Duties Bill passed the Lonls. The
Government of India Bill passed the Commons.

Al? MIST.

..........
I. Lord Lyndhurst brought the ease of the Harm' de
Bode before the Lords. In the l'oultnotis the Navul
Coast Volunteers Bill went through conimittee. The
Landlord and Tenant (In.land ) finale 'reiiiintCotupen-
eation (Ireland) Bill, and the Merchant Shipping 11111.
were read a third time and pulsed.
2. The occupation of the Ilannbian p►ovinces discussed
is the ',unix.

. 3. The Na•al Coast Volunteers Bill passed the
Commons. The Marquis of 11landlord's Capitula►• Estates
Rill was withdrawn, and Mr. C. Berkeley's Expenses of
liVleetioos Bill wa4 tl►rewn over.
4. Lord J. Russell made a atateineut Motive to
.Janiaios ; and the hotpot then went into committee of
supply. The Poor Relief Act Continuance Bill was read a
third time. The order for the se, , oil reading of the
Phew/bow Mill waft discharged.
A. The Government of India Bill read a seow►►d time in
the Lerds. (In the Commons, the war with China, the
Tissues embankment, and other interesting questions,
*lye discussed as oomatittee of supply.
R. Russia and Turkey refired to at come length in the
Lords, and with more brevity iu the Commons. The India