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THE PRESS, JULY 17,1858.

would be at the rate of 600,0001. a year, and the
works were to be completed in five years and a half,
or in 1863.

A question arose, which gave rise to some discus.
sion, whether in point of order a prior resolution in
a committee of the whole house was not necessary.
In the debate which followed, the play sketched
out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was variously
criticized. In the course of it,

Sir B. HALL observed that le had heard that it
was intended to alter the Act of 1855 as regarded
the point of outfall of the metropolitan sewage, and
he thought if it was to be nearer to the metro-
polis the house ought to be informed of this impor-
tant fact.

Lord J. MANNERS said it was impossible to arrive
at any positive conclusion as to the point whence the
sewage would not return, or what should be the
point of outfall ; but the Metropolitan Board of
Works had rightly determined, in the event of a
nearer point of outfall being fixed upon, to deodorize
the sewage.
Mr. WILSON doubted whether the precise plan
proposed of raising the loan was the best; and sug-
gested that it would be better for the Government at
once to make a loan for the specific purpose, and
advance the money as required through the Exche-
quer Loan Commissioners.
Mr. TITE observed, that if one point in this ques-
tion was decided, it was that if the sewage was deo-
dorized, it was of no consequence where it was poured
out.

Mr. STEPHENSON urged that the intercepting sys.
tern was indispensable; it possessed this advantage
over every other plan, that it effectei its object pro-
gressively, diminishing the evil as it went on.

Ultimately, after a reply by the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, who stated that the constructions
would include a system of intercepting sewers and
deodorizing wGrks, leave was given to introduce the
bill.

The Legitimacy Declaration Bill passed through
committee, with amendments.
The adjourned debate on the second reading of the
Civil Bills, &c. (Ireland), Act Amendment Bill was
resumed by
Mr. COGAN, who opposed the bill, which involved,
he said, great principles, and ought not to have
been delayed until many Irish members had left for
the assizes. He urged various objections to the bill,
and moved to deter the second reading for three
months.

This amendment was seconded by Mr. ROEBUCK.
Mr. WALPOLE supported the bill, the objects of
which were, he said, to secure efficient assistant
barristers, by removing such as were disabled from
discharging their functions, and to transfer them,
for cause shown, from one district to another.

Mr. OSBORNE strongly objected to the bill, and
recommended that itshould be withdrawn and another
bill introduce.' placing the assistant barristers upon
a better footing.
Mr. WHITESIDE justified the measure, pointing
out the evils it was designed to remedy.
Mr. J. FITZGERALD said he should resist this bill
in its present form, in all its stages, considering that
it infringed the constitutional independence of
judges.
The second reading was supported by Mr. S. B.
MILLER, and opposed by Mr. P. O'BRIEN, and after
some observations by Mr. WILSON and Colonel
FRENCH, upon a division it was carried by 97 to 62.
The Detached Parts of Counties Bill was also read
a second time.

The Report of the Committee of Supply was
brought up and agreed to.
Other bills were advanced a stage, and the remain-
ing orders having been disposed of, the house ad-
journed at a quarter to two o'clock.

A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in Downing street. The Ministers present were—
the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl
of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole,
the Earl of Ilialmebbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John
Manners.

THE offices of Dean of the Arches and Official
Principal of the Arches' Court have been conferred
by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Right Hon.
Dr. Lusbington. The functions of the Dean of the
Arches are now merely nominal, hut the Official
Principal of the Arches' Court is the Judge of the
Court of Appeal of the Province of Canterbury.
The Court of Appeal was formerly held in Bow
Church, or the Arches' Church (Sancta Maria de
Arcubus), and hence it derived its name of the
Arches' C nirt, which accompanied it when the scat
of judicature was transferred to (he Common Hall
of the College of Advocates in Doctors' Commons.
It is reported that Dr. Travers Twiss will succeed
Dr. Lusbington as Chancellor of the Diocese of
London.