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the table, he must say that be thought dare wan a very
airing of to it. (Hear, heir.) It was obvious that
if those report+, were pr.-stinted, the governments to which
the armies belongvil would object to any such statement
tinier; made of the operations of their armies. He con-
elderel that it was a very friendly net of those governments
to allow the presence of those commliaionert at all, and
oertsinly we should avoid anything like en abuse of the per-
m;ssion thus given. (Hear.)
MANNING THE NAVY.

Sir J. PAKlNTERii;ieritixTSee;:taryof the Admi-
ralty whether it wag the intention of her Majesty's govern-
ment to bring la any bill during the prefect 11“40.1 with the
view of carrying into effect the rtoemmendstions al the Royal
Commission for Liaoning the Navy.
Led C. PAGET said this wee a vary lamoi taut question,
involving a large burley of public money; and it wadi not
be unreasonable, as the Admiralty only took their .1 to yes-
terday, to &ter answering the question till Monday. (Hear.)
The Report of the Royal Commission on Manning the Navy
wag issued in February last, and hie tight hon. friend the
late First Lori did not take any declaim:a upon it until Jane.

ho thought he should be able to show that their demand wa
a reasonable one ; it was simply that the university should
be enabled to grant degrees to its own alumni.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES COURT.
Mr. E. JAMES asked the Ateonsoy-Gener 4 whether it
was Intended to take any ONII/117411 this meeker' to reduce
the arrears in the Divorce sad Matrimonial Causes Court.
There wen now pending 285 petitions foe &voice' lied 151
muses were standing for trish many of which had been ready
for trial for • period of from twelve to eighteen months.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL sold, the first legal sub-
ject to which the attention of the government was directed was
the state of the business in the court in question. The arrears
which had accumulated in the court ought not to be mended
as anything like an indication of what might be expected to be
the ordinary sate of things in the c tort. Tne occasion
of many of those snits was in circumstances that occurred
three, four, seven, or even ten years ago, and they had been
brought into the curt now became there was befoee no
tribunal of the kind. When the bill constituting the covet
was before; the houee he was desirous of adopting a sug-
gestion of the hon. member for We:wicket:eh e, to include the
whole of the judges es persona who might he competent to
preside for the purpose of forming the MI court. That was
objected to, and the penman to lona the court ware limited to
the three chief judges and the senior pulses judge. A alienate
would In brought in without delay for the pturie of making
the other patens judges eligible, and the measure would also
be directed to some other matters, tending greatly, he hoped,
to the improvement of the court, and enabling it better to ad-
minister justice. He hoped that that measure would be
passed during the present ..anion of parliament.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. DISRAELI said it would be convenient II her Ma-
jesty's government would inform the house what would be
the own of buboes next week.
Lord PALMERSTON replied that the eitimates—all the
estimates that was not yet voted—would be laid on eke able
on Monday, and they proposed to take esticostea on Friday.
On Monday he would state whether they would be the army
or the navy estimates; he could not tell at present.
The motion that the house at its rising adjourn till M.n-
day was then agreed to.
SUPPLY.
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The report of the committee of supply was brought up and
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W.
On the order for the second reading of the Newspaper',
&e.,
Sir G. LEWIS, not oljecting to the wood rradiog,
reserved to himself the foil power of coneideriog and dis-
cussing the different enactaiews it was proposed to repeal.
The bill wag reed a second time.

The Lary Trel (Scotland) Ad Amendment Bill wu
likewise read a mooed time.

iir:i6llllEliailogained lam to bring in a biU to
amend the Act bth and 6th William IV., cap. 63, relating
to:safe)? a.TA mvumree..

fdr."FITZROY also had !care to intssinee a bill to
enable the Commissioners of her Slvjastes Works to acquire
a site for the purposes of her blajeaty'a Court of Probate and
other omits end officio.

The home, attar some %Tibor bruiser, adjourned at 20
minutes pant Biz o'clock until Monday.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

The proceedings re-commenced in the Convocation
Howe yesterday morning, et eleven o'clock, but were totally
devoid of excitement, tbe friends of the Marquis of Chute°s
regarding his lordship's chance as a forlorn hope. Having,
however, pledged themselves to keep the poll open to the last
moment they were bound to do so. Mr. Gladstone led off,
and by a quarter-put 11 had polled eight votes to one,
thereby increasing his 'lupins of the preceding evening from
131 to 138. The succeeding quarter of an hour found the
candidate. neck and neck, eighteen votes hay.ng been re-
corded on each eds. The snivel of a large body of Mr.
Gladatonee supporters loft the marquis at 11.43 in a minority
of 148, his opponent polling 38 to 8. For the next hour
and a quarter, up to the temporary does of the poll at one
Mr. Gladstone steadily increased his lead, polling two votes
to one, the numbers standing—Gladstone, 981 ; Chandos,
804 ; majority, 177. The rankling two hours polling,
from three to five, was exceedingly slow, but much more to
favour of the marqula than that of the morning. Mr. Glad-
stone, from eleven to on., having received 93 votes to 47
(being la the propel-ion of two to one), and 69 to 66 la the
afternoon. The majority of one o'clock rued et 8.30 been
reduoed to 172, a number which by the aid of the local sup-
porters of Mr. Gladstone was at 4.30 increased to 192. As
the hoar of closing the poll drew near greeter intermit was
mmifeated, and a large number of members of convocation
auembled to bear the official decleralon of the Vise-Chen-
caller, which was given out a few mantes atter live, the
numbers being as follow :
Mr. Gladstone
Chandos 869

Majority for Gladatone l9l
The annotuarement of the Vice-Chancellor, which was made
in Latin, was received with applauae. Immediately upon the
contusion of the proceedings a meeeenger wee specially
deepateked with the precept to London, In order that the
right hon. gentleman might at once take hie meat. It may
be itteraeting to know that Mr. Gladstone, indeed of losing,
has gained supporters, the number polled on his 6.11111 on
the present occasion exceeding that of 1863 (when he was
opposed by Mr. Percival) by 28 votes, the number* being,
Gladstone, 1,022; Percival, 898. From the numbers of
members of collocation it would ap r that nearly 1,700
members of convocation have not re their votes.