The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-03 00:00:00

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

A series of resolutions, designed to facilitate the
transaction of business and retrench the oppor-
tunities for irrelevant talk in the House of Commons,
were proposed on Thursday by Sir J. Pakington.
The proposition emanated from a select committee
of which the right hon. baronet was chairman, and did
not, as he acknowledged, go by any means so far as
he should himself have wished. The resolutions
comprised a variety of modifications in the forms of
proceeding with relation to bills, votes of supply,
committees, dm., their general tendency being to
diminish the number of stages during the progress
of any measure or vote through the house on which
debates could be interposed upon the " general
question."
The whole series were adopted except the last, by
which the usual weekly motion made on every
Friday, "that the house on rising should adjourn
until Monday," was to be made a matter of course.
Mr. Bright and other members objected to this
deprivation of an opportunity for introducing a
debate on any topic of interest, and upon the
suggestion ,of Mr. Disraeli the resolution was with-
drawn.

pa* an 601.01tial nttiligatte.

FRANCE.
The preparations for the Boulogne camp are
already commencing, the commandant of the mili-
tary engineers in the district having received in-
structions to establish, at first, encampments for
12,000 men. The camp will be formed at Wimereux,
where 1,000 huts, built of clay, and thatched with
straw, are to be erected. The Government is stated
to intend augmenting the cavalry force in the East
by two regiments of hussars. This will raise the
French cavalry in the expeditionary army to a total
of 6,000.
General Ilaraguay d'Hilliers, late French Ambas-
sador in Turkey, arrived in Paris on Tuesday.
A pamphlet on the Eastern question has been sup-
pressed in Paris by the police authorities on the eve
of publication.
An imperial decree places under the protection of
the Empress the salles-d'asile for young children. A
central committee of twenty-three ladies is also
nominated to watch over the proceedings of the
sallts-d'asile, and to promote their objects.
M. Pralet, captain in the French navy, and Gover-
nor of Senegal, has lately undertaken a successful
expedition into the interior of Africa for the purpose
of re-establishing iu the upper part of the river
Senegal the port which formerly existed in the town
of Podor, and which is to serve as a guarantee of the
free navigation of the Senegal up to Bakel, and be-
yond that point. Podor is about sixty leagues
beyond the French establishment of St. Louis, in
the region of the Fouta, inhabited by the l'eulhs,
an intelligent race, well armed, and living by agri-
culture.

Some troubles have been caused in Algeria by a
fanatic calling himself El A'ma, a wandering
minstrel, who has excited much agitation among the
Hassinet tribes. He laid a plot for capturing Captain
Cerez, chief of the district, and his escort, but was
taken prisoner himself in the attempt, and died after-
wards of his wounds.

The Finance Minister has published in the Moni-
teur a report announcing the full success, and giving
the details, of the loan for 250 million francs
(10,0 i )0,0(X it. sterling). The n umber of subscribers VMS
90,224, and the subscriptions amounted to 408,315,400
francs, viz., 150,752,800 francs in Four-and-a-Half
per Cent. Stock, and 308,502,600 in Three per Cent.
(In consequence of this excess all the subscribers
for amounts exceeding 1,000 francs were allotted
only a portion of their demands.) The deposit
payable on subscribing being 25,000,000 francs, and
the first instalment due on the 7th of May 15,000,000
francs, the subscribers were not required to pay more
than 40,000,000 francs. The payments, however,
effected in Paris and the departments down to the
20th May amounted to 120,000,000 francs.
Sergeant Boichot, so well known in the revolu•
tionary troubles of France, was arrested on Thursday
morning at the terminus of the Northern Railway.